Experimental Analysis on the Variable Polarity Plasma Arc Pressure

作     者：JIANG Yi XU Binshi LUE Yaohui LIU Cunlong LIU Ming 

作者机构：National Science and Technology on Remanufacturing Laboratory Academy of Armored Force Engineering Beijing 100072 China Naval FlyingAcademy of China Huludao 125101 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering》 (中国机械工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第24卷第4期

页      面：607-611页

核心收录：

学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0801[工学-力学（可授工学、理学学位）] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

基　　金：supported by Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.50735006) National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program, Grant No. 2007CB607601) General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.50675223) 

主　　题：variable polarity plasma arc arc pressure orthogonal experiment 

摘      要：Arc pressure is one of the key factors for variable polarity plasma arc（VPPA） and welding pool formation. In this paper, VPPA pressure is measured by pressure transducer and U-tube barometer methods, and advantages and disadvantages of the two methods are compared. The effects of welding parameters, including with straight polarity（SP） current, reverse polarity（RP） current, time ratio of SP to RP, plasma gas flow rate, on VPPA pressure are investigated by using an orthogonal design. The experimental results indicate that the influencing degree of the welding parameters are in the order of plasma gas flow rate, SP current, time ratio of SP to RP, RP current. These results are important to researches of VPPA welding process and its mechanism. The physics behavior of VPPA is taken into account when the above influence mechanisms are analyzed. Firstly, according to the mechanism of the cooling compression to the arc, the compression to VPPA is enhanced with the increase of plasma gas flow, so the VPPA pressure would increase obviously. Secondly, although the temperature of VPPA is as a function of the welding current, the radius of VPPA is also enhanced. So the effects of SP current on VPPA pressure are inferior to the effects of plasma gas flow. Thirdly, VPPA pressure increases as a function of time ratio of SP to RP because the frequency of welding current influences the arc pressure to the some degree; Finally, the RP intervals are farther less than the SP intervals, so the influence to the pressure is minimal.