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Hydroforming
About: Hydroforming is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2796 publications have been published within this topic receiving 26293 citations. The topic is also known as: Bulge forming.
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TL;DR: In this article, the characterization and specification of tubular material properties under hydroforming conditions is the main concern of this paper, and analytical improvements and their comparison with experimental findings on measurement of material properties of tubes under hydraulic bulging conditions are explained.
Abstract: Increasing acceptance and use of hydroforming technology within the automotive industry demands a comprehensive understanding of related issues such as material characteristics, tribology, part and tooling design. Among these issues, characterization and specification of tubular material properties under hydroforming conditions is the main concern of this paper. Analytical improvements and their comparison with experimental findings on measurement of material properties of tubes under hydraulic bulging conditions are explained. With these improvements, ‘on-line’ and continuous measurement of flow stress for tubular materials become possible, and are proven to be in good agreement with previous ‘off-line’ measurements presented by the authors.
110 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of process parameters on forming limit diagrams have been evaluated and simulated using ABAQUS/Standard and the simulated results are in good agreement with the experiment.
109 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the early results in tube hydroforming of low carbon steel and aluminum alloy 6061-T9 tubes are summarized and compared to conventional stamping, including material selection, friction, pre-form design, hydroforming process and tool design, die materials and coatings.
109 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized the recent developments in sheet hydroforming technology, several key technical problems to be solved for the development of sheet hydrated technology are analyzed, and varied sheet hydrate technologies are discussed.
102 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of their studies on conceptual design and feasibility experiments towards development of a novel hybrid manufacturing process to fabricate fuel cell bipolar plates that consists of multi-array micro-channels on a large surface area.
100 citations