Abstract
Metal bellows have been widely used as expansion joints to absorb expansions and contractions in many engineering applications from the start of the century. In conventional metal bellows forming process, the main disadvantages are high cost of tooling required and lack of flexibility. To avoid the disadvantages, this paper presents a new metal bellows forming process using water jet incremental forming technology. The effect of some parameters in forming bellows is described in the paper. Meanwhile, because uniformity of thickness of metal bellows has great influence on its working life, the experimental research of the thickness distribution was carried out in the study. The feasibility of the process was validated by experiments.
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Wei, S., Xu, L., He, K. et al. Experimental study on manufacturing metal bellows forming by water jet incremental forming. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 81, 129–133 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-015-7202-3
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