Vol. 17 No. 2 (2002)

Ferro casting ductile 700 (FCD 700) is a ferrous material with carbon content > 2 %. It has pearlitc microstructure with a little amount of ferrite and nodular graphite. In as-cast condition FCD 700 has tensile strength 700 N/mm2, elongation 2 % min., hardness 229 "“ 302 BHN and impact value 7 joule. Heat treatment process is a process that can be executed to ferrous material. With heating the material until a range of austenite temperature then controlling the cooling rate. The objective is to repair or to modify the mechanical properties of material belongs before. In this article there

This paper presents mathematical model and numerical simulation using CFD software FLUENT 5.4 applied on continuous casting process of steel slab. The distribution of temperature of the steel slab since it exits the mould till straightening region was evaluated. The result of numerical evaluation was also compared to the measurement temperature taken at some selected points. The comparison showed that there was a good agreement between the numerical result and the measurement data. The percentage of both liquid and solid phases along the slab was also simulated. It seems that the simulation…

Screw Press is one of the main component of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) extraction machine. Until these days, the Indonesian CPO industries still import this component from Malaysia with longer delivery-order period that means a problem for productivity. This paper was written as alternative solution for Screw Press geometrical design by doing some engineering analysis. The analysis was limited to the geometrical design matter of component by modifying the fillet part and thickness of screw, and also analyzing the surface pressure of component. Finite element model was developed using MSC.Nastran…

This paper presents a robust adaptive impedance control for robot manipulators. The robust adaptive impedance control is designed to obtain fast and accurate force tracking. The proposed controller does not require special knowledge of robot dynamics and environment models. Lyapunov-based Model Reference Adaptive Control is used to establish a global stability of the tracking errors. Experimental results on an industrial robot are presented to verify the force tracking performance of the proposed controller.

Indonesian small and medium industries (UKM) have the ability to produce relatively cheap truck/bus brake drums, but the quality is needed to be improved. The drums usually fail in form of cracks or fractures before the design life is reached. This paper presents failure identification of the UKM