Study on Electromagnetic Incremental Aluminium Alloy Tube Bulging with Casting Pipe

Abstract:

A new method, electromagnetic incremental tube bulging with casting pipe, has been developed to manufacture corrosion resistant bi-metal pipeline as bulging aluminium alloy tube stuck to the internal surface of casting pipe. By formulating simulation parameters, electromagnetic model and structural model to do numerical simulation. The bulging tube is more homogeneous and closer to a long-straight tube when setting a casting pipe outside the aluminium pipe. Simulation results match well with the experiment. A solenoid coil discharges at different places inside the aluminium alloy tube with casting pipe a few millimetres outside the aluminium alloy tube. The aluminium alloy tube impacts on the internal surface of casting pipe instantaneously under the repulsive electromagnetic forces. The aluminium alloy tube can not be peeled off the casting pipe when tensile force reaches to 1kN. The result demonstrates that it is feasible to produce corrosion resistant bimetallic fluid pipe using electromagnetic incremental forming. The research can provide a certain reference for electromagnetic incremental aluminium alloy tube bulging.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 730)
• Pages: 321-326
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.730.321
• Online since: February 2017
• Authors: Yue Ting Zhu*, Jian Hua Mo
• Keywords: Bimetallic Tubes, Electromagnetic Forming, Incremental Forming, Tube Bulging

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