Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:34:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:47:49Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 padilha_rq_dr_guara.pdf: 4651598 bytes, checksum: 77a7edcf3c2fe16e30e62ec60549c1f8 (MD5) / Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) / Este estudo objetiva analisar a influência da espessura de uma camada intermediária de níquel químico sob cromo duro eletrodepositado no aço de alta resistência, ABNT 4340 (utilizado em trens de pouso de aeronaves), com dureza de 39 HRc e 52 HRc. A análise é realizada por meio de dados obtidos nos ensaios de fadiga por flexão rotativa, das amostras revestidas com cromo duro, com e sem camada intermediária de níquel químico. As espessuras com melhor desempenho foram submetidas a ensaio de fadiga axial, em corpos de prova com e sem entalhe. Os resultados demonstram que a aplicação da camada de níquel químico é benéfica, em todas as espessuras analisadas, porém, há espessura que seu desempenho é ainda melhor. O tema proposto surgiu do interesse da ELEB - Embraer Liebherr Equipamentos do Brasil, em buscar por novas alternativas ou melhorias ao atual revestimento de cromo duro convencional. / The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of the thickness of an intermediate layer of chemical nickel under chromium electroplating on a high resistance steel ABNT 4340 (used in aircrafts landing gears), with hardness of 39 and 52 HRc. The analysis is done through data obtained from rotating bending fatigue tests of samples coated with hard chromium, with and without intermediate layer of chemical nickel. The thickness with better performance are submitted to axial fatigue tests, with and without notch. The results demonstrate that the application of a layer of chemical nickel is beneficial, in all of the analyzed thickness although some thicknesses present even better performance. The proposed work is due to the interest of the Brazilian Company of Aeronautics, Division of Equipments - EMBRAER/ELEB - in searching for new alternatives or improvements to the current coating with conventional hard chromium.

A hard chromium electroplating process is normally used for preventing mechanical and electrical parts such as roller, piston and mold from the harmful environments and giving the good physical properties on the surface such as increased wear resistance, increased hardness, low frictional coefficient as well as good aesthetic look on the surface of workpieces. The problem that often found in this process is the deflected workpieces after plating process due to the low plating performance during a plating period. These deflected workpieces are needed to replating it again. However, the replating method causes a large amount of resource consumptions and increases the production time. To handle this problem, the plating solution temperature is needed to maintain the plating solution temperature at a set point about 50 °C in order to improve the plating performance during the plating period and decrease the occurrence of the deflected workpieces. In this work, the mathematical models are developed to explain the dynamic behavior of the plating solution temperature during the plating time and validated with the real data from a plant. The conventional (PID) controller is applied to this process for the purpose of keeping the plating solution temperature at the set point throughout the plating time. The result demonstrates that the developed mathematical models can be used to explain the dynamic behavior of the plating solution temperature because it gives the good simulation of the plating solution temperature with a slightly different from the real data. Furthermore, the PID controller shows the high control performance for maintaining the plating solution temperature at the set point throughout the plating period with small overshoot at the beginning of every batch.

Yes / In a hard chromium electroplating process, a heat exchanger is employed to remove the heat produced from the high current intensity in an electroplating bath. Normally, a conventional U shape heat exchanger is installed in the bath but it provides low heat removal. Thus, this study designs a novel W serpentine shape heat exchanger with identical heat transfer area to the conventional one for increasing heat removal performance. The performance of the heat exchange is tested with various flow velocities in a cross-section in range of 1.6 to 2.4 m·s− 1. Mathematical models of this process have been formulated in order to simulate and evaluate the heat exchanger performance. The results show that the developed models give a good prediction of the plating solution and cooling water temperature and the novel heat exchanger provides better results at any flow velocity. In addition, the W serpentine shape heat exchanger has been implemented in a real hard chromium electroplating plant. Actual data collected have shown that the new design gives higher heat removal performance compared with the U shape heat exchanger with identical heat transfer area; it removes more heat out of the process than the conventional one of about 23%.