Heat Assisted Dieless Drawing Process of Superplastic Metal Microtubes - From Zn22Al to β Titanium Alloys

Abstract:

A heat assisted superplastic dieless drawing process that requires no dies or tools is applied to the drawing of a Zn-22Al and β titanium superplastic alloy for not only circular but also noncircular microtubes such as square, rectangular and noncircular multi core tubes having square inner and rectangular outer cross sections. As a result, the tendency has been to increase the limiting reduction in area with increasing strain rate sensitivity index m value. We successfully fabricate Zn-22Al alloy, AZ31 magnesium, β titanium circular microtubes with outer diameter of 191μm, 890μm and 180μm, respectively. Furthermore, a noncircular micro tube, which has inner square tubes with a 335μm side, and an outer rectangular tube of 533×923μm were fabricated successfully. During the dieless drawing process, the geometrical similarity law in cross section which the tube is drawn while maintaining its initial shape can be satisfied. The smooth surface can be obtained in case of superplastic dieless drawing process without contact situation with dies and tools. Consequently, it is found that the superplastic dieless drawing is effective for the fabrication of circular and noncircular multicore microtubes.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volumes 838-839)
• Pages: 459-467
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.838-839.459
• Online since: January 2016
• Authors: Tsuyoshi Furushima*, Ken-Ichi Manabe
• Keywords: Dieless Drawing, Heat Assisted, Microtube, Superplasticity

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