Arc Distribution During the Vacuum Arc Remelting of Ti-6Al-4V. R. Woodside, C. Nordlund, and P. E. King, “Arc distribution during the vacuum arc remelting of Ti-6Al-4V.” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B 44.1 (2013): 154-165.
The temperature profile in the liquid and mushy zones for two cases of VAR melting of Ti-6-4. The case on the left is for the predicted current density into the ingot for the center arc-distribution mode, and the case on the right is for the ring distribution mode. The distribution was considered axisymmetric and constant over the duration of the melt.
It Sees What No Eye Can See, Janice Fink, “It Sees What No Eye Can See,” in Innovation, Volume 9, Number 6, December 2011 / January 2012.
A Measurement System for Determining the Positions. R. Woodside and P. E. King, “A Measurement system for determining the postions of arcs during vacuum arc remelting,” International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2010.
Cross Section of a typical industrial VAR furnace. Sketch is courtesy of ATI-Allvac, with a modification to show the video camera’s location during the experiments.
Arc Distribution and Motion During the Vacuum Arc Remelting Process as Detected with a Magnetostatic Approach, R. Woodside, in partial fulfillment of Doctor of Philosophy, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 2010.
Characterizing Arc Motion and Distribution during Vacuum Arc Remelting. R. Woodside and P. E. King, “Characterizing arc motion and distribution during vacuum arc remelting,” in Liquid Metals Processing Conference, Santa Fe, NM, USA, 2009. 2152, USA.
Investigating Arc Behavior in a DC Vacuum Arc Remelting Furnace Using Magnetic Flux Density Measurements, R. Woodside, in partial fulfillment of Masters of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, 2008.
Patents
- Patent 8,111,059 “Electric Current Locator” Issued, February 2012