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CHINESE JOURNAL OF AERONAUTICS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 1-12Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/S1000-9361(11)60356-7
Keywords
tube bending; forming; lightweight; high strength; defects; aviation; aerospace
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [50905144]
- State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology [09-10]
- NPU Foundation for Fundamental Research [JC201028]
- State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing in NWPU [2011JQ6004]
- 111 Project [B08040]
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As one kind of key components with enormous quantities and diversities, the bent tube parts satisfy the increasing needs for lightweight and high-strength product from both materials and structure aspects. The bent tubes have been widely used in many high-end industries such as aviation, aerospace, shipbuilding, automobile, energy and health care. The tube bending has become one of the key manufacturing technologies for lightweight product forming. Via the analysis of bending characteristics and multiple defects, advances on exploring the common issues in tube bending are summarized regarding wrinkling instability at the intrados, wall thinning (cracking) at the extrados, springback phenomenon, cross-section deformation, forming limit and process/tooling design/optimization. Some currently developed bending techniques are reviewed in terms of their advantages and limitations. Finally, in view of the urgent requirements of high-performance complex bent tube components with difficult-to-deform and lightweight materials in aviation and aerospace fields, the development trends and corresponding challenges are presented for realizing the precise and high-efficiency tube bending deformation.
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