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Research on shape and position control during the forming of the different hollow blades with low melting point alloy mandrel

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Both the mass and centrifugal force can be reduced by the hollow structure in blade. Also, the working efficiency of the engine can be improved by this hollow structure, but this structure is complicated and difficult to be formed. A pressing process of hollow blade with low melting point alloy as mandrel is proposed. The results show that the shape of the hollow blade can be controlled better by filling the low melting point alloy. The supporting structure has a great influence on the forming effect of unfilled low melting point alloy blade. The more supporting structures, the better the forming effect. The interface between the blade and the low melting point alloy cannot be bonded, so this processing method can be applied to practical production.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 51905068, Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province No.2020-HYLH-24, the open research fund from the State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University No. 2020RALKFKT012.

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  1. Transportation Engineering College, Dalian Maritime University, No.1 Linghai Road, Ganjingzi District, Dalian, Liaoning, 106026, People’s Republic of China

    Lei Jiang, Hongyu Wang, Shengnan Shi & Juncai Sun

  2. State Key Laboratory of Rolling & Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110819, People’s Republic of China

    Jie Sun

  3. Shagang School of Iron and Steel, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, 215021, People’s Republic of China

    Shunhu Zhang

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Jiang Lei: Conceptualization, Methodology, Investigation, Formal analysis, Data Curation, Visualization, Writing -Original Draft; Wang Hongyu: Supervision, Project administration, Funding acquisition, Writing -Review & Editing Investigation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Data Curation; Shi Shengnan: Methodology, Formal analysis; Sun Juncai: Investigation, Formal analysis; Sun Jie: Investigation, Methodology, Formal analysis; Zhang Shunhu: Investigation, Formal analysis.

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Highlights

• Three different kinds of blades are researched during plastic processing with and without low melting point alloy as mandrel in this paper.

• Based on both finite element method and experiments, the influences of supporting structures and low melting point alloy are analyzed.

• Differences between forming results obtained from finite element method and experiments are small. All these differences are plotted with pictures and drawn in 3-D diagrams. 

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Jiang, L., Wang, H., Shi, S. et al. Research on shape and position control during the forming of the different hollow blades with low melting point alloy mandrel. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 120, 7843–7853 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-022-09258-1

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