AUTOMATED PRODUCTION OF FIBERGLASS PIPE BENDS

Abstract

A promising direction in the production of high-pressure pipelines is the use of composite materials with special properties. Characteristics of composite products are set by reinforcement schemes and the use of various binders. The stability of the strength characteristics significantly depends on the stability of the process of laying reinforcing fibers. The development of automated technological systems of production, ensuring the stability of the process, is an urgent task. A method of fiberglass pipe bends manufacturing by the method of pre-impregnated tape winding on a folding mandrel. To implement this method the problem of developing technological equipment, equipment and methods of adjustment are solved. The proposed solution provides the formation of a branch from the inner surface. The kinematic scheme of the equipment realizes the rotation of the tape stacker around the axis of the cross-section of the mandrel and the longitudinal-angular displacement of the mandrel relative to the stacker, which provides the possibility of cylindrical and spiral stacking of the tape. The installation of tap winding, which is a three-axis CNC machine that implements the proposed scheme, is described. The rotation of the coils with tape around the mandrel is provided with a hollow rotary axis – stacker. Moving the mandrel relative to the stacker is provided by its installation on a movable platform. Following the proposed method of manufacturing bends, the outer surface of the collapsible mandrel ensures the formation of the inner surface of the branch, including the connecting-butt surfaces. Rules for the choice of the surface of the connector mandrel, ensuring its extraction from the manufactured branch is formulated. A method for programming winding operations has been developed. A method for determining the parameters of the control system of the CNC system is given, which specifies the structure of laying the tape and the wall thickness of the outlet. A procedure is described for setting up a tap manufacturing operation consisting in changing the relative position of the installation elements and the mandrel fixing devices. The use of traditional for CNC systems approaches to adjust the coordinate systems ensures the accuracy of the initial position is not worse than 0.1 mm.

Keywords

• чпк
• склопластиковий відвід
• розбірна оправка
• технологічне забезпечення
• автоматизоване виробництво