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- Title
Through Hole Aluminum Fabricated by the Extraction of Lubricated Metallic Wires.
- Authors
Nakajima, Hideo
- Abstract
Through holes, which provide flow paths for coolants, are useful in the cooling panels of the turbine blades of airplane jet engines and the heat sinks of electronics devices in cars and computers. To date, through holes have been fabricated by the directional solidification of molten metals having dissolved hydrogen, the core-bar pulling method, the rod-dipping process, mechanical drilling, electron beam and laser ablation processing, and other processes. However, the fabricated holes are short and impractical. The aspect ratio of the length to the diameter of holes in aluminum is at most 10. Here we report through hole aluminum fabricated by extracting lubricated metallic wires embedded in a solidified aluminum melt. X-ray computed tomography showed that the through holes are very long with a maximum aspect ratio of 270. The hole sizes range from 102 to several 103 µm in diameter. Furthermore, the present technique can fabricate spiral and V-shaped holes in aluminum, a capability lacking in conventional perforation techniques. Thus, our methodology for producing through hole metals is expected to provide expanded opportunities for technologies such as heat sinks, turbines, biomaterials, and machine tools.
- Subjects
METALLIC wire; JET engines; HEAT sinks (Electronics); COMPUTED tomography; LIQUID metals; ELECTRON beams; NANOWIRES; HEAT resistant alloys
- Publication
Metallurgical & Materials Transactions. Part A, 2019, Vol 50, Issue 12, p5707
- ISSN
1073-5623
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11661-019-05490-9