Electro-Thermo-Elastic Simulation of Graphite Tools Used in SPS Processes
Electro-Thermo-Elastic Simulation of Graphite Tools Used in SPS Processes
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SPS 工艺中使用的石墨工具的电热弹性模拟
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2013
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N. Frage
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S. Hartmann;S. Rothe;N. Frage
In the range of field-assisted sintering technology or spark plasma sintering all materials in the testing machine undergo very large temperature changes. The powder material, which has to be sintered, is filled into a graphite die and mechanically loaded by a graphite punch. The heat is produced by electrical induction and the cooling process is performed by conduction and radiation. Both the heating and the cooling process are very fast. In order to understand the process of the highly loaded graphite parts, experiments, modeling and computations have to be carried out. On the thermal side the temperature-dependent material properties such as heat capacity and heat conductivity have to be modeled. Since the heat capacity is not independent of the Helmholtz free-energy a particular consideration of the free-energy is carried out. On the other hand, the temperature changes of the electrical resistivity and the material properties of the graphite tool must be taken into considerations. Accordingly, the material properties of “Ohm’s law” must be modeled as well. The fully coupled system comprising the electrical, thermal and mechanical field are solved numerically by a monolithic finite element approach. After the spatial discretization using finite elements one arrives at a system of differential-algebraic equations which is solved by means of diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta methods. Issues and open questions in the numerics are addressed and problems in modeling a real application are discussed.