Hydroforming process of thin-walled tubular components with multiple local bulges

• Autorzy: Cui Xiao-Lei , Guo Ju , Zhao Yuanyang , Lin Peng

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DOI

10.1007/s43452-023-00711-w

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

In the hydroforming process of a thin-walled tubular component with multiple local bulges, the bulge in the middle position is almost impossible to be formed with a conventional one-step hydroforming process because of the difficult axial feeding. To solve this problem, a novel method is proposed by preforming wrinkles using selective induction heating at different positions of tube blank to aggregate materials in advance for the subsequent hydroforming of tubular component with multiple local bulges. In this paper, the wrinkling behavior of 5052 aluminum alloy tube blank under different conditions and the deformation behavior of the wrinkled tube blank in subsequent hydroforming process of tubular component with three bulges are analyzed. It is shown that the existence of wrinkles is beneficial to increase the ultimate expansion ratio of the tube blank. Moreover, the instability behavior of multiple wrinkles on 5052 aluminum alloy tube blanks under different conditions was investigated by experiments. The process parameters for prefabricating two or three wrinkles, including temperature, spacing between wrinkles, and internal pressure, were determined through a detailed experimental investigation. Finally, the defects including splitting and undercut that occur in the hydroforming of tubular component with three bulges are analyzed, and the thin-walled tubular component with three bulges was hydroformed successfully using a wrinkled tube blank obtained under the process parameters of 250 °C, 4 mm, 5.5 MPa/350 °C, 10 mm, 2 MPa/400 °C, 6 mm, 1.33 MPa. These results provide insights for the manufacturing of tubular component with multiple local bulges from hard-to-form materials.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

hydroforming; wrinkling behavior; non-uniform temperature field; induction heating; tubular component with three bulges

PL

hydroformowanie; nagrzewanie indukcyjne; temperatura

• Wydawca: Springer ; Wrocław University of Science and Technology
• Czasopismo: Archives of Civil and Mechanical Engineering
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 23, no. 3
• Strony: art. no. e169, 2023
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 19 poz., fot., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Cui Xiao-Lei

• National Key Laboratory for Precision Hot Processing of Metals, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7486-4237

autor

Guo Ju

• China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Datong Gear Co., Ltd., Datong 037000, China
• College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

autor

Zhao Yuanyang

• National Key Laboratory for Precision Hot Processing of Metals, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

autor

Lin Peng

• College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2024)