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An Alternative to Thermal
Stress Relieving
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Often the reason cited for skipping stress relieving is based upon the desire to avoid unwanted side effects associated with heat treatment.
► Distortion.
► Scaling.
► Change in material properties.
► Lengthy time restraints.
► Further reasons are time, cost and size limitations associated with furnace sizes.
► The risk is in hoping that no problems will arise normally cracking, distortion, or a reduction in the component life cycle.
► A bigger, often forgotten risk, is any of the above will often generate dissatisfied customers.
► As VSR does not cause any of the mentioned unwanted side effects and the process is virtually limitless in size and weight capabilities
not stress relieving is unnecessary.
Benefits of stress relieving (VSR) are many but briefly the common ones include:
The above bar diagram has been drawn from the original data in the DTI / ERA (UK)
research project which lasted almost two years and has been authenticated by Dr. Phil
Aplin of ERA .
This clearly shows the effectiveness of Vibratory Stress Relieving
Ongoing research and testing is being carried out both in
South Africa and overseas to prove the effectiveness of
VSR. Detailed here is some of the equipment and
components with strain gauges attached
Following are some photographic examples of some
of the many components treated on a daily basis by
our on site-service teams
Owing to the mixture of materials used in their construction VSR offers the best option for the stress relieving of mining equipment
VSR is used extensively on lifting equipment from rope
drums to ladle lifting hooks and overhead crane sections
The effects of different
frequencies on a component
can often be seen by the
formation of “node lines”.
These can be highlighted by
scattering loose material
such as sand onto the
component whilst treatment
is in progress
Small and lightweight components are treated by means of a vibrating table
Dead Sea Desalination Project (Sulzer)
Items for water plants manufactured both for SA and for export