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Researches on the curvature adjustment of metal sheet induced by laser shock forming through experiments and simulations

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Laser shock forming (LSF) is an emerging method for metal sheet forming, and it can also be used to adjust the curvature of the curved metal. A series of laser shock adjustment experiments were conducted on 1-mm-thick curved aluminum 6061-T6 sheets using pulsed Nd3+:YAG laser operating at 1064-nm wavelength. The effects of various factors on the curvature adjustment were studied, including laser energy, impacted area, coverage rate of laser spots, and initial sheet shape. The mechanisms of curvature adjustment by LSF were studied by FEM simulation. The results have shown that the stress gradient mechanism and the shock bending mechanism were responsible for the two different kinds of deformation. The characteristic difference between the two mechanisms lies in whether the plastic deformation is directly induced on the bottom surface when the laser-induced shock wave is transmitted to the bottom surface. The curvature of the metal sheet can be adjusted conveniently within a certain range by changing the laser processing parameters, which is very useful for the engineering application.

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This work was supported by Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant Number BEK20171297), Six talent peaks project in Jiangsu Province (grant Number GDZB-020), and Open Project Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai JiaoTong University (Grant Number MSV-2015-17).

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    Yunxia Ye, Rang Zeng, Zeng Nie, Yunpeng Ren & Xudong Ren

  2. Institute of Micro-nano Optoelectronics and Terahertz Technology, Jiangsu University, Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, 212013, People’s Republic of China

    Yunxia Ye & Yunpeng Ren

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Ye, Y., Zeng, R., Nie, Z. et al. Researches on the curvature adjustment of metal sheet induced by laser shock forming through experiments and simulations. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 108, 2791–2802 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05469-6

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