Products of Scientific Research Projects from National Key Laboratories
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发布时间:2024-01-25 11:33
Fuan Heavy Industry has undertaken the production of components for a national key laboratory research project—namely the converging section, diverging section, and working section. It is a critical core component of the large cavitation water tunnel experimental platform, which was developed and constructed by the Shanghai Institute of Shipbuilding Technology. This large cavitation water tunnel experimental platform is China’s first domestically developed, designed, and manufactured “first-of-its-kind” facility; it is the largest such platform in Asia and the second largest in the world for ship-related research. It serves as an essential experimental facility for studying the cavitation performance and hydroacoustic characteristics of ships and propulsors, primarily used to conduct simulation tests on the hydrodynamic, cavitation, excitation-force, and noise characteristics of test subjects such as ship propellers, hydrofoils, and high-speed underwater vehicles under pressurized or negative-pressure conditions. The successful development of this large cavitation water tunnel experimental platform has broken through foreign technological blockades and monopolies. This is of great significance for enhancing China’s capabilities in major engineering technologies in the maritime sector and for strengthening the research and testing capacity of the State Key Laboratory of Shipping Technology and Safety.
This product is a stainless-steel welded assembly with an overall external configuration resembling a frustum of a pyramid and internal cavity surfaces that are complex spatial curved surfaces. Final machining and pre-assembly for delivery were performed by Fuan Heavy Industry. The product has a total length of 13.5 meters and a maximum flange cross-section of 7 × 7 meters. The flatness requirement is 0.1 mm, the parallelism requirement is 0.25 mm, the deviation of the internal cavity profile is less than 0.3 mm, and the deviation of the locating pins corresponding to the assembly flange is less than 0.03 mm. Given that the product is an extra-large structural component with stringent precision requirements, some of the machining dimensions exceed the capabilities and accuracy standards of conventional machine tools. To mitigate errors caused by deformation during machining, process supports are added within the cavity. In addition, dedicated tooling fixtures and contour-milling cutters are designed and manufactured; a grid-based datum is established inside the cavity, and advanced measurement equipment such as laser trackers is employed for inspection and correction, thereby effectively ensuring compliance with the dimensional accuracy requirements for cavity machining. The completion of the product’s finish machining fills a domestic gap in the machining of large-scale, three-dimensional spatial curved surfaces, and Fuan is preparing to publish a technical paper and file a national patent application.
This product underwent phased precision finishing at the end of 2023 and successfully passed quality acceptance by the relevant national authorities in early 2024. Its superior quality has earned high praise from customers, enabling the company to make a significant contribution to China’s critical national projects and to establish a new growth driver in the Fuan Shipbuilding market segment.