Tube hydroforming with radial crushing bears some advantages over the conventional hydroforming
i.e.without radial crushing.A simple and practical experimental tool was designed for the former hydroforming and a series of experiments were conducted on the tool where circular tubes were crushed into workpieces with triangle cross-sections.The influence of the constraint states at the tube ends
hydraulic pressure and the friction states on the bulge tube profile
the wall-thickness distribution
the potential bursting location
the corner-filling ability
failure modes of the bulge tube workpiece was investigated.The results show that a larger internal pressure can increase corner-filling ability while decrease the symmetry of the bulge tube profile and uniformity of wall-thickness distribution;severe constraints at the tube ends make these effects inversed.The results also indicate that the corner-filling ability
the profile symmetry and the wall-thickness uniformity can be improved and the bursting can be delayed by a good lubrication;however
an unreasonable forming pressure might lead to a poor corner-filling ability
premature collapsing or bursting during the forming process.
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