Zumwalt-Class Destroyer Tungsten Alloy Counterweights(1/2)

The destroyer is a medium-sized surface ships, which was born in the 90s of the 19th century, it is one of the most important strategic military cruisers of the navies all over the world. The destroyer can be divided into air defense destroyer and antisubmarine destroyer, which were widely used in the second world war. Destroyers can empower various anti-aircraft guns, torpedoes and missiles etc. to perform a variety of air, on the sea, on the potential and land attack mission. Under normal conditions, the tonnage of destroyer is in more than 5000 tons, but antisubmarine destroyer’s tonnage will be less than 5000 tons.
 
Zumwalt-class destroyer, referred to as DDG-1000, is the main type of the United States Navy surface ships. It gathered a variety of cutting-edge technology in its body, whether it is from the weapon system, motor power, network communication, navigation or detection of ship design, all that has no destroyer of other countries can compare in the world. But this feature of the huge body also makes the Zumwalt-class destroyer be vulnerable to defend the rough sea, so that it would crease the wreck threat. Therefore, tungsten alloy counterweights can be used in Zumwalt-class destroyer in order to increase the stability of navigation.
Zumwalt-class destroyer

 

The Lifetime and Recovery Method of Catalyst AMT / SiO2

To further investigate the lifetime and recovery method of catalyst such as AMT / SiO2 calcined at 533K, the results are shown in Figure 2. 
Fig.2 (a) shows that the fresh catalyst maintain a high stability in the first 46h, conversion rate of catechol is more than 95%. With the extension of the reaction time, the catalyst activity decreased slowly, conversion rate of catechol was 95% at 440h, continue to extend the reaction time, the catalyst activity decreased rapidly, conversion rate of catechol has dropped to about 10 % after 550h. The stability of AMT / SiO2 catalyst is lower than aluminum phosphate catalyst system containing titanium of the previous reports, and it is fairly basic to the stability of Zn-Cl2 / Al2O3 catalyst, but much better than some supported catalyst systems such as Cs / SiO2 and so on. The AMT / SiO2 catalyst stability needs to be further improved, but the initial activity and primary product selectivity of the reaction are high. It’s the best single catechol ether and methanol vapor phase reaction reported in the literature.

Fig 2

 

Tungsten Gold-Plated Coin For Concert

Concert is a kind of shows that directly singing in front of the audience, the performer can be a group or a single, in most cases the concert will need to buy tickets. It’s no doubt that concert is the occasion that many fans can at the closest distance to contact with his favorite singer or his idol, it is also a Carnival Day that can singing with many congenial. For many singers, it’s also an excellent way to interact with their fans or express their appreciation for the support of their fans in the form of holding a concert.
 
Under normal circumstances, the surface of tungsten gold-plated coin for concert would be engraved with the concert’s subject name, lead singer, and nature. For its golden bright appearance and high commemorative value, tungsten gold-plated coin has been widely used as concert presented souvenirs to audience, guests and the background field personnel. Because of the properties of high density, good corrosion resistance and good wear resistance, tungsten alloy has the same sense feel of gold, which can also make tungsten gold-plated coin for concert have excellent corrosion resistance, abrasion resistance, and make it can be permanently preserved as a beautiful witness in life.
Tungsten gold-plated coin for concert

 

Catalytic Performance of AMT / SiO2 Calcined at Different Temperature

AMT / SiO2 catalyst calcined at different temperatures has different degrees of AMT decomposition, resulting in different properties of the catalyst surface pH center, resulting in catalyst performance vary.
 
The result of reaction between methanol monoetherification and catechol calcined at different temperatures with AMT / SiO2 catalyst is shown in Figure 1. The figure shows that when the firing temperature is 533K, the reaction within 10h, the conversion and selectivity of catechol o-hydroxy anisole were maintained at around 97% and 90%; catalytic properties of catalyst calcined at 573K and 533K are fairly basic; with the increase of calcination temperature (623 and 773K), catechol conversion rate decreased, the selectivity of product o-hydroxy anisole increased slightly, and as the reaction time extend the activity of the catalyst decreased significantly. Obviously the activity and stability of the catalyst prepared at a relatively low firing temperature (533 and 573K) are much better than catalysts obtained at a high temperature. The properties (especially pH) of active centre on the catalyst surface changed after calcination, thereby reducing the catalytic performance.

Fig 1

 

Tungsten Gold-Plated Coin For Musicale

Music can give people the feeling of beauty and the baptism of the soul. For many musicians, holding a musicale is also a very important event in his life. With the improvement of life level and the diversification of leisure entertainment, more and more people begin to attention to the spirit of enjoyment and personal sentiments of cultivate. People will chatted about music in the gossip, listen to music in the leisure time and buy the concert tickets to listen to the live music in order to obtain the higher enjoyment. So the countless musicales will be held everyday all over the world.
 
Tungsten gold-plated coin for musicale plays the role as a commemorative souvenir to the participative music fans by the musicale’s organizers or individuals in the musicale. It not only can be used to thank for the arrival and support of the audience, but also can be the eternal memory of the musicale. The weight, pattern or size of the tungsten gold-plated coin for musicale can be customized depending on the specific requirements and the particularity of audience, the range of weight is from 1 gram to 50 grams.
Tungsten gold-plated coin for musicale

 

Tungsten Copper Composite Power Warm Compacting Process (2/2)

Continued from the preceding paragraph, Either iron-based materials or tungsten (W), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al) and other metal powder, warm compacting process can be adapted, which also has many advantages, such as:

3. High compacting strength: at the same level of density, temperature and pressure through the green strength of conventional pressing process up compacts 1.25 to 2.0 times, which also facilitates the manufacture of complex mechanical parts powder metallurgy techniques to improve the powder metallurgy technology market competitiveness. Further, since the temperature and pressure after forming green strength is high enough so that it can compact simple machined directly in front of the sintering process, which improves the overall efficiency and the service life of tools;

4. Small release pressure: Compared to the conventional pressing process, stripping process in warm compaction pressure fell by more than 30%. This means that to a certain extent can reduce mold wear to extend its service life and easy-to suppress parts of complex shape. Moreover also by reducing the amount of feed powder lubricant, making the overall density of the compacts have been further improved;

5. Small elastic aftereffect: dimensional change after the sintering temperature and pressure process than conventional tungsten copper parts pressing process is much smaller sintering shrinkage is also smaller and easier to improve the dimensional accuracy of tungsten copper parts;

6. Excellent mechanical properties: in the case of material with the same density, temperature and pressure process using material prepared than the ultimate tensile strength of the multi-pressure sintering improved about 10%, the fatigue strength increased 10-40%;

7. Low relative cost: Although the temperature and pressure of the relative cost compared to the conventional process once the pressing process has increased the cost, but it is still lower than sintering process, copper leaching process, powder forging process.

In addition, in order to make tungsten copper products have excellent comprehensive properties, tungsten copper composite powder warm compacting process should focus on some main parameters, which includes the powder (granularity, content, porosity, apparent density, etc.), the lubricant additives (effect on temperature, friction factors, volatility, oxidizability, etc.), temperature controlling.

Tungsten Copper Composite Power Warm Compacting Process (1/2)

Warm compacting process is a kind of new process of high precision powder metallurgy that develops based on conventional molding process. Compared with conventional process, warm compacting process is in the process of pressing the powder in a conventional method and the mold is heated to a certain temperature after pressing to obtain a high-density powder compacts, which flies high density and high performance sintered body. Generally, the pre-heating temperature is between 100-150℃. Due to it is at the range of the room temperature and hot pressing temperature, which is so-called warm compacting. The standard warm compacting process can be density iron-based parts increased from room temperature to suppress (600 ~ 800MPa) of 6.6-6.8g / cm to 7.25-7.45g / cm, and the process cost and lower than the pressure recovery, re-burn, copper infiltration, forging.

In addition, this method can be obtained by pressing a high-performance powder metallurgy products, its high efficiency, high precision characteristics has become one of the faster process of powder metallurgy parts production technology in development. Either iron-based materials or tungsten (W), copper (Cu), aluminum (Al) and other metal powder, warm compacting process can be adapted, which also has many advantages, such as:

1. High density of compacting and sintering: Under the same compacting force, compared to conventional pressing process density can be increased 0.15-0.30g / cm3. Corresponding density required to obtain communication pressing force can be reduced by about 140MPa. This allows suppression of a larger size in the powder press lower tonnage, moderate density of powder metallurgy (PM) parts to create the conditions to increase the tonnage of the press;

2. Uniform compact density distribution: using warm compaction density tungsten copper fittings difference between conventional pressing process is lower than 0.1-0.2g / cm3;

tungsten copper block

 

Exploring Tungsten Trioxide Electrochromic Material

Electrochromic MaterialElectrochromic material that is the material occurs by adding material to an electric field. Electrochromic mechanism is more complex, tungsten trioxide (WO3) is an electrochromic material first to be discovered, and it is also the first to be made of electrochromic devices, but its color principle has been a controversial topic. Researchers studied by performing color performance, established a variety of models to explain the mechanism of color, for example, color center model, price between charge transport model, polarization model, free carrier models, but these models can not explain tungsten trioxide electrochromic mechanism.

Although there are not mechanisms for tungsten trioxide electrochromic, researchers had already learned how to apply tungsten trioxide electrochromic properties and has made tungsten trioxide electrochromic devices come out, and tungsten trioxide electrochromic properties has applied in many areas of life.

There have been a variety of different structures of tungsten trioxide electrochromic devices. As the illustration shows the sandwich-type five-layer structure of the electrochromic device of tungsten trioxide is transparent glass. The upper and lower layers are the cover layer; and the five middle orders from the top are the transparent conductive layer - the electrochromic layer - ionic conductor layer - ion storage layer - transparent conductive layer.

 

Tungsten Trioxide Electric Property

Tungsten Trioxide Electric PropertyWhen current flows through a conductor, the conductor may have a fever, this heat generated by the current, called electric, or it can be understood as electric power is generated by the heat, the phenomenon of electrical energy becomes into internal energy. The use of electric principle can be made into various electric heaters, such as electric irons, electric stove, electric irons, electric ovens, water heaters, electric hatch boxes.

Electric material is a new energy material which has relatively traditional energy with small size, no noise, no pollution, long life and other characteristics. Thermoelectric materials can be used as electricity and thermal energy conversion intermediary material. The material will appear the temperature difference, and this electric conversion is reversible. Conventional thermoelectric materials have high ZT value (figure of merit, the higher the coefficient, the higher thermoelectric conversion efficiency), and the preparation of a mature technology, it has been widely used in thermoelectric power generation and refrigeration device. Some researchers are finding new thermoelectric materials, although these materials have a higher ZT value, it is the most toxic and precious metal alloys division, the use of these materials will increase in the environment.

Tungsten trioxide (WO3) as important high-tech materials in the electrochromic, the light catalytic degradation, the gas detection and other areas has a wide range of potential applications. WO3 is an n-type thermoelectric material at the same time. Currently, the status quo is thermoelectric materials research with P-type thermoelectric material, but it is necessary for the production of thermoelectric devices p-type matches with n-type. Early, studies have shown that WO3 doped thermoelectric performance, which has been improved. If we find a important dopant and it will be the best process parameters for WO3 thermoelectric properties, it is possible to WO3 used in thermoelectric materials.

 

Sapphire Single Crystal Growing Tungsten Crucible Thermal Stress Analysis

Sapphire single crystal is kind of alumina (Al2O3) single crystal and its optical penetration is very wide. From near ultraviolet (190nm) to mid-infrared light it has very good transmission. On the other hand, due to its excellent optical properties, mechanical properties and chemical stability, and high strength, hardness, corrosion resistance, it is widely used in military, medical, electronics and other fields. And to produce excellent performance sapphire single crystal the crucible of sapphire single crystal growth furnace is a critical factor. With high purity, high density, crack-free, precise size, smooth inner and outer walls and other good features of the crucible for sapphire crystal seeding success rate in growth process, pulling quality control, de-crystal stick pan and extended service life has played a key role. Tungsten crucibles with high strength, high hardness and high temperature and other good performances are widely used in the sapphire growth furnace. The experiment found that the thermal stress concentration phenomenon in the sapphire single crystal growth process leads to short life of tungsten crucible. So many scientists after analyzed tungsten crucible failure factors in sapphire single crystal growth process found that thermal stress is the main reason for the failure of tungsten crucible.
Thermal stress: tungsten crucible in the course of using has suffered a long-term cyclical heating and cooling, leading to the crucible axial and radial exists temperature gradients. Besides, in the process of crystal growth will generate cycling thermal impact shock making crucible to generate microcracks. In the long-term recycling process, the microcracks will continue to expand, after reaching a certain level, resulting in the crucible scrapped.
 
The experiment found that the maximum thermal stress exists in the junction between crucible and the tray, to meet the crystal growth conditions, slowing the rate of temperature increase, smaller temperature gradient controlling, increasing the hole of the pressure pin, changing material of tray and pressure pin and other methods can reduce the thermal stress.
Sapphire Single Crystal & Tungsten Crusible
 

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