Hot dip aluminizing is one of the most effective methods of surface protection for steels and is gradually gaining popularity.Although the pulling speed is one of the most important parameters to control the coating thickness of aluminizing products,however,there are few publications on the mathematical modeling of pulling speed during the hot dip process.In order to describe the correlation among the pulling speed,coating thickness and solidification time,the principle of mass and heat transfer during the aluminizing process is investigated in this paper.The mathematical models are based on Navier-Stokes equation and heat transfer analysis.Experiments using the self-designed equipment are carried out to validate the mathematical models.Specifically,aluminum melt is purified at 730 ℃.The Cook-Norteman method is used for the pretreatment of Q235 steel plates.The temperature of hot dip aluminizing is set to 690 ℃ and thedipping time is set to 3 min.A direct current motor with stepless speed variation is used to adjust the pulling speed.The temperature change of the coating is recorded by an infrared thermometer,and the coating thickness is measured by using image analysis.The validate experiment results indicate that the coating thickness is proportional to the square root of pulling speed for the Q235 steel plate,and that there is a linear relationship between coating thickness and solidification time when the pulling speed is lower than 0.11 m/s.The prediction of the proposed model fits well with the experimental observations of the coating thickness.
XIAO Gang SHANGGUAN Qi LU Yuheng HUANG Caimin ZENG Jianmin
Compounds Sr4Eu2Ti4Nb6O30 and Sr5EuTi3Nb7O30 with filled tetragonal tungsten bronze structure were prepared,and the dielectric characteristics and ferroelectric transition were investigated.Both ceramics displayed weak frequency dependence in room temperature dielectric constant,which decreased from 125 to 118 for Sr4Eu2Ti4Nb6O30,from 206 to 195 for Sr5EuTi3Nb7O30 in the frequency range of 10 kHz to 1 MHz.The present ceramics showed a diffuse ferroelectric phase transition.The frequency independent transition temperature （Tm） indicated the above compounds had no relaxor property.The diffuseness （γ） was 1.45 and 1.64 for Sr4Eu2Ti4Nb6O30 and Sr5EuTi3Nb7O30 respectively.The weak ferroelectric of the present materials are indicated from the P-E hysteresis loops,and a small 2Pr of 0.596 μC/cm2 and 0.068 μC/cm2 were observed for Sr4Eu2Ti4Nb6O30 and Sr5EuTi3Nb7O30 respectively.
