Titanium Hot Stretch Forming: Experimental and Modeling Residual Stress Analysis

Abstract:

Titanium alloys, due to their high mechanical properties coupled with light weight and high corrosion resistance, are finding a widespread use in the aeronautic industry. The use of titanium in replacing the conventional alloys, such as aluminum alloys and steel, is reduced by both the high cost of the raw material (it costs anywhere from 3 to 10 times as much as steel or aluminium) and the machining costs (at least 10 times that to machine aluminium). For such a reason new technologies have been studied and developed. In particular many researchers are searching for technologies, such as the precision hot forming, that allows to obtain components with a low buy to fly ratio. Many of the airframe component structures are designed to fit against the inside radius of the fuselage curvature. By combining traditional stretch forming technology with hot titanium forming techniques, the HSF guarantees a saving in material and machining time, which are two serious cost issues for todays aircraft manufacturers. In addition, the process allows for consistent quality in a productively efficient manner, assuring the sustainable attainment of delivery and build schedules. In order to develop and improve the HSF process a modeling of the process itself was executed in order to study the stresses and strains undergone by the material among the deformation. The FEM model was validated through the residual stresses, and in particular the residual stresses provided by the model were compared with the ones experimentally measured using the hole drilling technique. Good agreement, in terms of stress range, was recorded both for the maximum and the minimum stress.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volumes 611-612)
• Pages: 149-161
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.611-612.149
• Online since: May 2014
• Authors: Antonello Astarita*, Luca Giorleo, Fabio Scherillo, Antonino Squillace, Elisabetta Ceretti, Luigi Carrino
• Keywords: Finite Element Method (FEM), Hot Stretch Forming, Residual Stress, Titanium Alloy

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