ISSN: 1003-6326
CN: 43-1239/TG
CODEN: TNMCEW

Vol. 19    No. 3    June 2009

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Effects of process parameters on numerical control bending process for large diameter thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes
LI Cheng(李 成)1, YANG He(杨 合)1, ZHAN Mei(詹 梅)1, XU Xu-dong(许旭东)2, LI Guang-jun(李光俊)1
(1. State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering,
Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;
2. Chengdu Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation Ltd, Chengdu 610092, China
)
Abstract: Numerical control(NC) bending experiments with different process parameters were carried out for 5052O aluminum alloy tubes with outer diameter of 70 mm, wall thickness of 1.5 mm, and centerline bending radius of 105 mm. And the effects of process parameters on tube wall thinning and cross section distortion were investigated. Meanwhile, acceptable bending of the 5052O aluminum tubes was accomplished based on the above experiments. The results show that the effects of process parameters on bending process for large diameter thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes are similar to those for small diameter thin-walled tubes, but the forming quality of the large diameter thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes is much more sensitive to the process parameters and thus it is more difficult to form.
Key words: large diameter thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes; small bending radius; numerical control bending process
Superintended by The China Association for Science and Technology (CAST)
Sponsored by The Nonferrous Metals Society of China (NFSOC)
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