J Mater Sci Technol ›› 2006, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (06): 855-859.

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Three Dimensional FE Analysis on Flange Bending for TC4 Alloy during Shear Spinning

Xinyu LU, Shihong ZHANG, Hongliang HOU, Jizhen LI, Lixin ZHOU, Zhiqiang LI   

  1. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China...
  • Received:2005-08-15 Revised:2005-11-07 Online:2006-11-28 Published:2009-10-10
  • Contact: Shihong ZHANG

Abstract: In this paper, the 3D elastic-plastic simulation was carried out by using finite element (FE) code according to the phenomena of flange keeping straight, bending towards headstock and bending towards tailstock in the shear spinning experiments for TC4 alloy. The simulation results for the three kinds of deformations of the flange agree well with the experimental results. So it is possible to explain the reason of flange bending by analyzing the strain vectors in the flange for the three kinds of deformation, which shows that it is important to apply the FE simulation technology for predicting the defects and optimizing the spinning process of TC4 alloys.

Key words: Shear spinning, Flange, Finite element modeling (FEM), TC4 alloy