Analise numerica e experimental da hidroconformação de produtos tubulares

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

Industries have been developing production methods and processes to improve the productivity and reduce costs of parts, assemblies and products. The hydroforming process is one of these processes that are being used with this objective, especially for the automotive and auto-parts industries, to manufacture body, motor and suspension parts. In this investigation a tool set to produce "T" parts was designed and manufactured, and instrumented to monitor the process.Tubular parts were hydroformed with these tools and the values of internal pressure and deformation force as a function of punch displacement were measured. The tube hydroforming process was simulated using the finite element method with explicit formulation. In the material model used in the simulations the anisotropy of tube steel were considered. The values of internal pressure as a function of punch displacement were input in the finite element model to get the displacements of the tube, the component stresses in the elements, and the effective strain. The effective strain was compared with the forming limit that has been proposed by Asnafi. This calculated effective strain by finite element method has its value close of the limit rupture strain calculated by the criteria. During the experiments the tube fractured at the same time of the simulations. The deformation force obtained in the simulation was compared with the experimental deformation force. The behavior of the force in the simulations and experiments was similar. The deformation force has two different paths during de process. First, while the tube does not yield, the deformation force has a strong increase for little displacements of the tube and after the yield when the displacements are big for little force increase

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tubos metais conformação de metais analise numerica

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