Determining the specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity for adjusting boundary conditions of FEM model
¹ Department of Material Science and Manufacturing Technology Faculty of
Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, CZ165 21 Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic
² Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Faculty of Engineering, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, CZ165 21 Prague – Suchdol, Czech Republic
*Correspondence: kesner@tf.czu.cz
Abstract:
One of modern way of the heat treatment process of agricultural tools such as chisels or tines is FEM modelling. FEM models needs the accurate boundary conditions for successful solution. Specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity are important parameters for the design of the physical properties of heat treatment. These parameters are used for the formation of the temperature field during the cooling process at the heat treatment. More accurate parameters allow you to better estimate the final microstructure in the entire cross-section of the material. Specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity are known from material sheets, but they are stated as constant values. This is the reason why this work is focused on the determination of specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity of steel during the quenching. For the experiment in this work was chosen material 25CrMo4. The values of specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity were determined by comparing the experimentally measured cooling curves and cooling curves generated by the mathematical model. The dependences of specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity were compared in temperature, so that the relationships of cooling curves were statistically significant under alfa level 0.05.
Key words:
FEM model, quenching, specific heat capacity, thermal conductivity