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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-A.2010.34.9.1235

Design and Construction of a Loom for Obtaining Ultra-Light Metal Structure  

Kim, Pan-Su (School of Mechanical System Engineering, Chonnam Nat'l Univ.)
Kang, Ki-Ju (School of Mechanical System Engineering, Chonnam Nat'l Univ.)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A / v.34, no.9, 2010 , pp. 1235-1240 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wire-woven Bulk Kagome (WBK) is fabricated by assembling helically formed wires in six directions. To date, WBK samples have been assembled manually. For industrial application, the assembly process must be automated. Furthermore, if WBK is to be fabricated using flexible wires that cannot maintain their helical shape during fabrication, a specialized automatic machine, i.e., a loom needs to be developed. In this work, we designed and constructed a loom for fabricating WBKs using flexible wires. This loom is operated by one rotation of the upper plate, two translations of the insertion device, and insertion of wires. So-called "comb devices" are placed between multiple layers of Kagome nets to prevent the wires that are already in place from getting entangled with those that are being inserted. This loom can be also used to fabricate semi-WBKs composed of helically formed wires and rigid straight wires.
Keywords
Loom; Ultra-light Metal Structure; WBK(Wire-woven Bulk Kagome); PCM(Periodic Cellular Metal);
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