The present application relates to the field of additive manufacturing technology and fluid transmission technology, and more particularly relates to a bionic flow channel design method for additive manufacturing cylinder block and its hydraulic drive device.
Additive manufacturing is a manufacturing technology that uses computer-aided design (Solidworks, Magics) model data to stack up layer by layer according to extrusion, sintering, melting, and spraying methods to produce physical objects. Compared with traditional processing methods such as cutting, polishing, and carving, additive manufacturing technology has no restrictions on the shape of parts and can accelerate the production process of parts. The application potential is huge. Empowered by technologies such as topology optimization and creative design, additive manufacturing technology brings lightweight structure and material reduction design, as well as improved heat dissipation performance of parts, making it widely used in fields such as aerospace, foot-operated robots, etc. There is no doubt that hydraulic drive devices, as key components of foot-operated robot joint drive, have the advantages of high power-to-weight ratio, stable work and small impact during switching, large thrust, and good control performance. It is of great significance for improving the power-to-weight ratio of its components and the control performance of the system.
For the production and manufacturing of hydraulic drive devices, cylinder blocks are usually made by machining. The main disadvantages are that detailed drawings are required from the model to the production process. At the same time, the production cycle is long. Especially, the processing requirements for the hydraulic drive device flow channels are high, it is inevitable that there will be process holes on the cylinder block surface, resulting in a large number of sealing points and easy leakage failure. At the same time, for the design of traditional hydraulic drive device cylinder blocks, the cylinder block structure under traditional structure generally has a large weight and complex redundant structure, which makes it difficult to realize the development of hydraulic drive devices in the direction of lightweight and high integration. At the same time, for the complete production cycle of hydraulic drive device, the additive manufacturing method also requires less two-dimensional drawings compared to the machined production method, which greatly simplifies the design and production process of a hydraulic drive device. Therefore, in the movement of hydraulically driven high-end mobile equipment, there is an urgent need for a design method for high-performance hydraulic drive device based on additive manufacturing.
In order to overcome the shortcomings of existing technology, the present invention further improves the work efficiency and optimizes design structure of hydraulic servo cylinder through scientific design of bionic flow channels for hydraulic drive device. At the same time, the present invention also greatly simplifies design and production process of hydraulic drive device cylinder block structure. Combined with characteristics of the additive manufacturing process, the designed hydraulic drive device is lighter in weight and higher in strength.
To achieve the above objectives, the present invention provides a bionic flow channel design method for additive manufacturing cylinder block, which includes following steps:
Step 1: Determine the Energy Required to Transfer Liquid through a Bionic Flow Channel;
According to the relationship between bionic flow channel flow rate q and channel diameter d, determine the energy required to transfer liquid in the channel according to the law of conservation of energy:
Where: E represents the total energy consumed by the flow channel; Ef represents the energy required to maintain liquid flow in the flow channel; Em represents the energy required to maintain metabolism; q represents flow rate in bionic flow channel; l represents length of horizontal direction of flow channel before branching; μ represents hydraulic viscosity coefficient; m represents metabolic constant; d represents diameter of bionic flow channel;
With energy conservation, when the flow channel branches, the relationship between the radius of the flow channel before branching and the radiuses of two branches of the flow channel after branching is calculated as follows:
r
3
=r
1
3
+r
2
3;
Preferably, the acquisition method of the bionic flow channel flow rate in step 1 is shown as follows:
q=kd3.
The second aspect of the present invention is that it proposes an additive manufacturing hydraulic drive device manufactured and formed according to the aforementioned bionic flow channel design. The hydraulic drive device includes a servo cylinder, a servo valve, a sensor component, a motion controller, and an end cap;
Preferably, the hydraulic drive device is processed by additive manufacturing technology.
Preferably, four sides of the servo valve mounting base are arc-shaped, and four corners of the servo valve are fixed on the servo valve mounting base with bolts.
Preferably, the bionic flow channels on both sides of the cylinder block of the servo cylinder are embedded inside the side wall of the servo cylinder block.
Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effects of the present invention are:
1, nozzle baffle servo valve; 2, additive manufacturing cylinder block; 3, motion controller; 4, piston rod; 5, force sensor; 6, hydraulic drive device ear; 7, displacement sensor; 8, oil inlet bionic flow channel; 9, oil return bionic flow channel; 10, rodless cavity bionic flow channel; 11, servo valve mounting base; 12, rod cavity bionic flow channel; 13, end cover connecting block; 14, rotating oil distribution structure.
Hereinafter, the embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The present invention improves the working efficiency of hydraulic servo cylinders and optimizes the design structure by designing bionic flow channels for hydraulic drive devices. It uses bionic flow channels to realize the connection between additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 and nozzle baffle servo valve 1, without the need for additional connection channels, reducing the damage of channel joints and leakage failure rate; at the same time, the present invention also greatly simplifies the structural design and production process of additive manufacturing cylinder block 2, making the designed hydraulic drive device lighter in weight and higher in strength.
The bionic flow channel design method for additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 and hydraulic drive device provided by an embodiment of the present invention is shown in
S1: Determine the Energy Required to Transfer Liquid through Bionic Flow Channels;
Obtain the energy consumption relationship required to transfer liquid in S1, and according to the minimum energy consumption principle, the following calculation relationship can be obtained:
The hydraulic viscosity coefficient μ and metabolic constant m have been determined, so the calculation formula for flow rate in the flow channel and channel diameter can be simplified as follows:
q=kd3;
Under the premise of energy conservation, if there is a branch in the flow channel, the calculation relationship of the channel radius is shown as follows:
r
3
=r
1
3
+r
2
3;
After branching of flow channel, the calculation relationship between the length of flow channel before branching I and the length of flow channel after branching I1 is shown as follows:
The calculation relationship between total energy consumption E of the flow channel and angle θ between center lines of the two flow channels before and after branching is shown as follows:
According to the above formula, the range of angle after branching of the flow channel can be finally obtained.
The bionic flow channel is a flow channel layout based on a Bessel curve arrangement, i.e. based on the bionic concept, with reference to the flow channel branching and energy-saving perspective of the cardiac vascular system. It also includes the energy required for blood flow and the energy required to maintain metabolism, and is designed in such a way that the least amount of energy is consumed during blood transfer.
As shown in Table 1, a comparison of the pressure loss at different transition methods is obtained from the simulation. From the table, it can be seen that the traditional flow channel transition can be divided into linear transition and circular transition, while the invention is based on Bessel curve bionic flow channel, from the data in the table, it can be known that the present application can greatly reduce the pressure loss caused by the change of direction and transition of liquid in the flow channel. The advantages of the flow channel layout proposed by the present invention can be seen more intuitively through quantitative analysis of the pressure losses with several different transition models, setting the same liquid properties and boundary conditions.
The radius of bionic flow channels is used in the branching design of the hydraulic channels, in order to avoid greater pressure loss during oil transfer due to large corner flow channels, the radius relationship is also applicable to symmetrical and asymmetrical branching, as well as the branching problem of circular flow channels, thus providing direction for the design of our oil bionic flow channels;
After obtaining the above-mentioned channel radius, under the premise of minimum energy consumption in the flow channel, the geometric relationships of the flow channel after branching is used to determine the range of angle after branching, the angle of the flow channel also applies to the channel design that does not start at the same point but the center lines of the flow channel intersect. Finally, the design of bionic flow channels can be achieved by following the principles of flow channel radius and flow channel branch angle, using structural characteristics.
The second aspect of the present invention proposes an additive manufacturing hydraulic drive device designed according to bionic flow channels, which can be set on the additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 by a flow channel optimization design and an additive manufacturing process, acting as a reinforcement rib and minimizing the wall thickness of the servo cylinder after optimization. The hydraulic drive device mainly includes nozzle baffle servo valve 1, additive manufacturing cylinder block 2, motion controller 3, piston rod 4, force sensor 5, hydraulic drive device ear 6, displacement sensor 7, oil inlet bionic flow channel 8, oil return bionic flow channel 9, rodless cavity bionic flow channel 10, servo valve mounting base 11, rod cavity bionic flow channel 12, end cover connecting block 13 and rotating oil distribution structure 14.
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The bionic flow channel on the surface of additive manufacturing mainly considers the spatial layout of the surface of the additive manufacturing cylinder block 2. Compared with the channel layout under traditional processing, for two positions that are not in the same plane, additive manufacturing flow channel can realize flow channel connection with a certain degree of curvature, avoiding the phenomenon of vortex flow at the intersection due to excessive corner under the traditional vertical intersection, greatly reducing the energy loss of oil in the pipeline.
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The pressure loss of different types of bionic flow channels provided by an embodiment of the present invention is shown in
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The manufacture of hydraulic drive device is specifically formed by additive manufacturing technology, taking into account process characteristics, selecting appropriate printing angle, and designing the parts that may produce support structure in cylinder structure, adjusting printing angle for sliced surface and the structure added from the supporting part to reduce difficulty of later model processing; optimizing the surface structure of additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 through bionic flow channels to improve cylinder block rigidity and reduce overall weight of cylinder block. By designing a local reinforcement rib structure, the reliability of additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 is strengthened.
In summary, the bionic flow channel design method for additive manufacturing cylinder block 2 and the hydraulic drive device of the present application have proven to have good application effects , as follows:
The embodiments described above are only a description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Without departing from the spirit of the design of the present invention, various variations and improvements made to the technical solutions of the present invention by persons of ordinary skill in the art shall fall within the scope of protection determined by the claims of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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2022106122238 | May 2022 | CN | national |