Ceramic Extrusion Die Design

Since the invention of the auger type extrusion machine there has developed a large business devoted to the production of extrusion machines of various types and sizes for the ceramic industry.

Ceramic extrusion die design. Initial costs and lead time of aluminum extrusion tooling is usually a good deal lower than the tooling required for alternative technologies like die casting steel roll forming vinyl extrusion impact extrusion stamping or pultrusion. Being electrically conducting syalon 501 can be electro discharge machined which allows complex die profiles to be formed economically. Understanding the difference metal and ceramic extrusion dies is key to successful application of ceramic dies. A typical extrusion operation will make use of a die assembly including the die.

Extrusion and drawing dies are also available in an advanced ceramic which uniquely is electrically conducting. Dynamic ceramic s flexible approach to manufacturing and technical support is unequalled in the ceramics industry. Extrusion picture supplied by barwell limited. During this time a vast body of empirical knowledge concerning the design of augers dies and machines to do particular jobs has grown.

This allows the ceramic to flow freely thru the die with or without heating or vacuum. Demonstration video wherein honeycomb shaped monoliths and profiles were easily extruded using local natural clays without the need of chemical binders. Magnesia stabilized zirconium oxide extrusion dies from zircoa inc are engineered to provide the high temperature stability chemical inertness hardness wear and corrosion resistance required to extrude non ferrous alloys such as copper copper nickel brass and other copper alloy. The raw material loaded into a ceramic extrusion machine is usually fine powder with a combination of additives in the form of binders and plasticizers to impart the desired rheology.

The powder mix consists of a fine ceramic powder with the appropriate additions of binder s and plasticiser s to. The die entry parameters were calculated from the die entry pressure which is obtained from a bagley plot extrusion pressure versus l d extrapolating a linear plot at a given velocity back to the y axis the extrusion pressures for a die land length of zero die entry pressure p 1 are obtained the die entry parameters were then obtained by fitting a three parameter power law curve to a. A the die b extrusion stand attached with three stepper motors and linear displacement transducers c a displacement control electronic unit universal motion interface umi and d a software program created within labview that. This material is syalon 501 a composite sialon ceramic.

Dynamic ceramic manufactures both finished custom made extrusion dies or blanks that can be finished in your tool room. This forming process consists of forcing a plastic mix of a ceramic powder through a constricting die to produce elongated shapes that have a constant cross section. English ceramic extrusion dies outperform traditional dies in both direct and indirect presses.