{"id":14142,"date":"2016-05-26T21:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\/2016\/05\/26\/die-cast-rotor-design\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T21:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:43","slug":"die-cast-rotor-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/?p=14142","title":{"rendered":"Die-cast rotor design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The method of creating a die-cast rotor is as follows: <\/p>\n<p>1. An assembly of steel laminations (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">may or may not be grain-oriented<\/a>) containing the openings for both rotor bars and ventilation (as required) is made and clamped together to form a cylindrical iron core. <br \/>\n2. The assembly is inserted into a mold, which has space both above and below the core for the end (shorting) ring assembly. <br \/>\n3. The molten conductor material (aluminum or copper, usually) is injected into the mold and allowed to flow through the bar openings. It also fills the end ring spaces. <br \/>\n4. The entire assembly is allowed to cool so that the conductor solidifies. <br \/>\n5. The &#8220;cast&#8221; core is then shrunk onto a steel shaft. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have a &#8220;cast&#8221; rotor assembly, ready for bearings and mounting into machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The method of creating a die-cast rotor is as follows: <\/p>\n<p>1. An assembly of steel laminations (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\">may or may not be grain-oriented<\/a>) containing the openings for both rotor bars and ventilation (as required) is made and clamped together to form a cylindrical iron core. <br \/>\n2. The assembly is inserted into a mold, which has space both above and below the core for the end (shorting) ring assembly. <br \/>\n3. The molten conductor material (aluminum or copper, usually) is injected into the mold and allowed to flow through the bar openings. It also fills the end ring spaces. <br \/>\n4. The entire assembly is allowed to cool so that the conductor solidifies. <br \/>\n5. The &#8220;cast&#8221; core is then shrunk onto a steel shaft. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have a &#8220;cast&#8221; rotor assembly, ready for bearings and mounting into machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iacdrive_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}