Design and Application of Process Control Expert System
for Auto-brush Electroplating Technique

ZHANG Bin  XU Binshi  DONG Shiyun  WU Bin  JING Xuedong

(National Key Laboratory for Remanufacturing, the Academy of Armored Forces Engineering, Beijing 100072)

Abstract: Auto-brush electroplating technique and equipment are studied, a particular description of design and application of the process control expert system is given. The expert system includes a database for keep data, expert program for self-study and operation program for application. Auto-brush electroplating technique made good application gains with the expert system. The nano-composite coating containing n-SiC/Ni is prepared. As compared with manual-coating, the auto-coating’s surface morphology is flatter and more compact, size of the grain formed the surface is smaller and average. The structure of auto-coating is denser than the manual-coating’s. The auto-coating’s wear resistance is more excellent and the micro-hardness improves 8% than the man-ual-coating’s.

Key words: Auto control  Auto-brush electroplating  Expert system

CLC No: TG174.441

国家自然科学基金(50235030)和武器装备预研基金(51418060105JB3508, 51489020104ZD0401)资助项目. Received 20070407, received in revised form 20071128

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