Report 3

“IHIMU-α” and its conception of calculus

COV777 – Efficient Shipbuilding

Professor: Jean David Caprace

Kazuhiro Aoyama

Student: Rogerio de Assis Dias Guahy

RIO DE JANEIRO

2021

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 “IHIMU-α” and its conception of calculus

The line heating technique is used to fold flat plates, transforming them into
undeveloped surfaces. This technique combines as plastic deformations
assimilated by means of mandatory thermal stresses, which arise during the
heating of the metal flat plate. It is a technique that simplifies the generation of
any curved surface.
The main concept in this technique resides in the fact that, when heating a steel
plate, whose crystalline structure is of the centered body cubic type (CCC), this
structure undergoes changes, becoming the centered face cubic type (CFC)
When cooling this structure, now of the CFC type, there will be a contraction
improvement that, if properly controlled, allows an adequate formatting of the
worked steel sheet.
This entire process comprises elastic and plastic deformations, and during
cooling, the elastic compaction disappears, leaving the plastic compaction.
Because it is a very empirical technique, which depends on the knowledge and
experience of the employed labor, it offers a difficulty in terms of controlling costs
and the time of execution of the task. The retirement of this specialized workforce
was one of the main motivating factors for developing a fully automated technique
that replicated the necessary skills.
The IHI-α system was developed in 1997, which was the first computer-supported
folding system. This system started to be used for formatting curved plates from
the company IHI Marine Limited, undergoing several improvements resulting
from research and developments made by the partnership between the industry
and the university and was renamed IHIMU-α.
Obtaining the desired shape requires knowing the amount of heat required to be
applied to certain parts of the steel sheet in the respective direction of application
and the sequence of the locations to be heated. This set of information is called
the Heating Plan.
Every α System is then composed of a heating - deformation database that lists
the heating conditions and the amount of deformation, a program that generates
the heating plan from the aforementioned database and a hardware that
implements the heating plans. heating.
In the line heating process, four types of deformation occur, two in the tangential
direction to the heating lines and two in the orthogonal direction, both caused by
flexion and shrinkage.
As we can see, the IHIMU-α system is an improvement of the α system that aims
to maximize its total capacity. This system detects the position of the steel plate,
adjusts the heights of the hydraulic jacks, performs the heating and cooling,
deforming the steel plate, detects the new position of the steel plate, readjustes
the heights of the jacks, performs new heating and cooling, measures and
evaluates the new form, calculating a correction for the heating plan, which is
executed again, according to this correction. This process is carried out
repeatedly until the system evaluates the form obtained as satisfactory.
The inputs of the IHIMU-α system consist of a Finite Element Model (FEM) of the
sheet already in its desired shape, material and thickness. The system then
calculates the heat application locations, the heating speed and the sequence of
the places to be heated and cooled as an output, thus constituting the heating
plan.