Buckling-Assisted Manufacturing of Microscopic Metallic Tubes and Related Devices

    公开(公告)号:US20220152676A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-19

    申请号:US17439042

    申请日:2020-03-18

    IPC分类号: B21C1/22 B21C9/00

    摘要: Embossing of metallic glass supercooled liquids into templates is emerging as a precision net-shaping and surface patterning technique for metals. Here, the effect of thickness of metallic glass on template-based embossing is disclosed. The results show that the existing embossing theory developed for thick samples fails to describe the process when the thickness of metallic glass becomes comparable to the template cavity diameter. Increased flow resistance at the cavity entrance results in viscous buckling of supercooled liquid instead of filling. A new phenomenological equation is proposed to describe the thickness dependent filling of template cavities. The buckling phenomenon is analyzed based on the folding model of multilayer viscous media. Controlled buckling can be harnessed in fabrication of metal microtubes, which are desirable for many emerging applications.

    CONTINUOUS WIRE DRAWING APPARATUS AND METHOD
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200181747A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-11

    申请号:US16211999

    申请日:2018-12-06

    IPC分类号: C22F1/08 C22F1/02 B21C9/00

    摘要: A continuous wire drawing apparatus includes: a wire releasing scrollbar and a wire collecting scrollbar being respectively a wire releasing end and a wire collecting end of a metal wire material; a wire drawing force control unit and a back force control unit providing a drawing force and a back force to the wire collecting end and the wire releasing end respectively; a heating unit disposed between the wire releasing end and the wire collecting end, and adapted to heat the metal wire material continuously at a heating temperature in a heating area, whereby the metal wire material is deformed by a strength difference between the drawing force and the back force; and a cooling unit disposed between the heating unit and the wire collecting end, and adapted to cool the metal wire material continuously at a cooling temperature in a cooling area.