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Study on Whole Forming Process of Unequal Thickness Inner Liner for High-Pressure Gas Cylinder

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For the "thin walled and thick nozzle" high-pressure gas cylinder liner cannot be molded as a whole this problem, this paper puts forward a new technology route. A composite process based on thickening of the end and neck-spinning was designed. Through the finite element simulation to analyze the neck-spinning of the gas cylinder liner, the distribution law of equivalent stress and strain in the neck area after different passes of forming was investigated; the axial distribution of the three-way strain in different thickness layers is further discussed, and the influence laws of different process parameters on the equivalent stress and strain are derived and analyzed; the process parameters are also optimized and the optimal set of process parameters based on equivalent stresses and thickening factor is derived. The spinning experiments successfully produced a "thin walled and thick nozzle" monolithic cylinder liner, and compared with the simulation results to verify the accuracy of the model.

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This work was supported by Taiyuan University of Science and Technology Scientific Research Initial Funding (20202076), the Fundamental Research Program of Shanxi Province (20210302123275), and the Doctoral Starting Foundation of Shanxi Province (20212059).

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    Chen Wang, Binkai Zhang, Zhuangzhuang Tian & Chunjiang Zhao

  2. College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, 79 Yingze Avenue, Taiyuan, 030024, People’s Republic of China

    Wang Tian

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Wang, C., Zhang, B., Tian, W. et al. Study on Whole Forming Process of Unequal Thickness Inner Liner for High-Pressure Gas Cylinder. Int. J. Precis. Eng. Manuf. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12541-024-00996-8

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