THE PARAMETRIC DESIGN OF THE ULTRASONIC EXPONENTIAL HORNS

In industry the ultrasonic waves are used both in dimensional processing operations and in auxiliary processes like: washing, deburring, ultrasonic material testing. By the use of ultrasonic waves they can be processed almost all types of materials, but ultrasonic erosion is applicable primarily to those materials with high fragility, not too great hardness and also which do not have plastic deformation before breaking, such as ceramics, glass, quartz, ferrite, etc. Starting by the known relationships, it is presented a modern method useful to design exponential ultrasonic horns. This method assumes a calculation program, which supplies the coordinates in different cross-sections of the horn and allows its graphical representation. The performed program can save the matrix with coordinates in xls format, which can be calculated in Solid Edge application in order to obtain the 3D model.