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Research on tube hydro-forging process of trapezoid-sectional parts

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The tube hydro-forging as a new tube forming technology has many differences in principle and mechanism; it is based on the principle of compression deformation instead of the common tensile deformation. This gives great advantages to form parts with variable cross-section perimeters and small sharp corner. The trapezoid-sectional parts are the usual quadrangular structure and widely used in many areas, but it has poor shape accuracy when formed by expansion. In this paper, the tube hydro-forging process of trapezoid-sectional parts was studied. The effects of corner angle and radius on the thickness distribution were analyzed theoretically, and the design principle of die parting for asymmetric trapezoid-section was pointed out. Finite element analysis and the experimental results show a good agreement with the theoretical conclusions. The present study provides a guideline for the rational design of process parameter and die parting, and it will be helpful to wide application of the tube hydro-forging process.

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This study was financially supported by the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1937205), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51775134), Major Scientific and Technological Innovation Program of Shandong (Grant No.2019TSLH0103) and Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong (Grant No. GG201710020004). The authors would like to take this opportunity to express their sincere appreciation to these funding organizations.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, 264209, People’s Republic of China

    Gang Chen, Sheng-Jie Yao & Guan-Nan Chu

  2. Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Shanghai, 200436, People’s Republic of China

    Bao-Guo Chen

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Chen, G., Yao, SJ., Chen, BG. et al. Research on tube hydro-forging process of trapezoid-sectional parts. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 107, 1901–1908 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-020-05151-x

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