Carbon paste, which is the material of electrode for extrusion forming, is generally considered to be a “Bingham Body”. We made experimental extrusion on the carbon paste by a bench-scale plunger type extruder with various size of cone nozzles.
As a result, it was concluded that the carbon paste slipped on the wall of cylinders at elevated temperatures from 110°C to 130°C, and also the material was almost in steady flow if the position of the piston was apart more than 50 mm from the entrance of the nozzle and the piston speed was less than 0.5 mm/sec, when the extruder having the cylinder, 50 mm in diameter, with the nozzle of 25 mm and 17 mm in diameter. Extrusion pressure,
Ppiston, was given, as the following equation on the basis of the Sach's theory, which approximately coincided with the experimental results.
Ppiston=
K [(1+1/μ
ncot
d) {(
A1/
A2)
μncota-1} +4
d/3√3] ·
e2μ
sh/
r1Yield stresses of the carbon paste determined from the above equation were 1.2 Kg/cm
2 and 0.5 Kg/cm
2 at the temperatures of 110°C and 130°C, respectively.
In order to analyze stresses, we obtain a flow pattern of the carbon paste by the method of Siebel's grid and measured the coordinates of the intersections of the deformed grid. The distribution of the strain velocity, the principal stress tranjectories and the stress distribution were determined from the analysis of the flow pattern using electron data processing system.
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