Research on the Springback of Square TA18 Titanium Alloy Tube on the Numerical Simulation

Abstract:

This paper focuses on how bending and springback process of the titanium tubes with different bending radius and bending angle affect the springback rate after unloading and analyses tube distributions and variations of stress and strain by establishing a three-dimensional elastic-plastic finite element model of square TA18 titanium alloy tube based on ABAQUS/explicit and ABAQUS/standard. It is shown that under the same process parameters, the sprignback rate obtained by numerical simulation is in good agreement with that measured in the experiments. The springback rate after unloading increases with the increase of the bending radius linearly, and it increases nonlinearly with the decrease of bending angle. The distribution of the tube-roundness and the relationship between its roundness and springback rate under different process parameters could be obtained by comparing the variation of the absolute value of its outer wall unit at the maximum principal strain before and after unloading.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 944)
• Pages: 753-760
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.944.753
• Online since: January 2019
• Authors: Cong Liu, Xiao Dong Yan*, Yin Yang, Wei Ye
• Keywords: Numerical Simulation, Roundness, Springback, TA18 Titanium Alloy, Tube Bending

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