B-spline contour curve approximation and deformation analysis of complex ceramic core:

Complex ceramic core is the critical part for manufacturing hollow turbine blade in the investment casting process. The complex geometry, small inner structures and high-precision requirements of ceramic cores make them difficult to fabricate, and the shape and dimensional accuracy of ceramic cores are very low in factory practice. To understand the deformation characteristics of ceramic cores, a noisy points recognition algorithm, an extraction method of measuring cross-section contour points and a B-spline iterative fitting algorithm using dominant points of chord deviation are proposed. First, the cross-section contour points were provided through registration, slicing and intersection methods. Second, the noisy points were deleted by convex noisy points and concave noisy points recognition algorithms. Third, the cross-section contour curve of the ceramic core was fitted through B-spline iterative fitting method with chord deviation dominant points. The curves fitted with chord deviation points and cur...