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Cooling Steel Die for Contact Cooling of Aluminium - Advice Needed
Ah okay thank you for your help!- Lewisjamesfc
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Cooling Steel Die for Contact Cooling of Aluminium - Advice Needed
Hi, thanks for replying. A furnace, to change the micro structure. I have simplified it, into steps and hopefully you might be able to help Consider two pieces of metal, one at 550C and one at 25C. When they come into contact how would I calculate the temperature of the cold body after 2...- Lewisjamesfc
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Cooling Steel Die for Contact Cooling of Aluminium - Advice Needed
Yeah sorry, I have attached a diagram of the system and drawn the aluminium part to the side but it would normally sit on top of the shaded tool steel die inside the base that has the chambers. Basically the aluminium is placed in the die at 550 degrees c which should then be cooled by...- Lewisjamesfc
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Cooling Steel Die for Contact Cooling of Aluminium - Advice Needed
Hi, I am designing a system to cool aluminium through contact cooling. I have a steel die with 9x 20mm diameter cooling chambers. Water is pumped through the chambers which cools the steel die and hopefully the aluminium sitting on top of it. I am looking to find the temperature of the...- Lewisjamesfc
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- Aluminium Contact Convection Cooling Fluid dynamics Quench Steel Thermodyamics
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- Forum: Mechanical Engineering