Publication Date:
2018-09-22
Description:
Recently, aluminium (Al) alloys are increasingly used in the automobile and aerospace industries because of their light weight and corrosion resistance properties. However, the applications of these materials are limited due to their poor formability especially at room temperature. Although hydroforming technology is one of the approaches used to improve the formability of Al alloys, it still cannot fulfil the requirements of designers and manufacturers to form high-quality complex shaped components. It has been found that high-speed forming is able to improve the formability of low plasticity metals at room temperature. Thus, impact hydroforming (IHF) technology is proposed by combining the advantages of high-speed forming and hydroforming, and it was used to address the issues of quasi-static hydroforming. Accordingly, the aim of this study is to investigate the effect of IHF on the formability of AA5A06 sheet metal. An IHF bulge experiment setup was developed by making use of...
Print ISSN:
1757-8981
Electronic ISSN:
1757-899X
Topics:
Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics
