Investigation of thickness variation and corner filling in tube hydroforming

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-296

  Kridli, G T ^a   Bao, L ^a   Mallick, P K ^a   Tian, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

Author keywords

Corner filling; Finite element modeling; Thickness distribution; Tube hydroforming

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDRAULICS; MATERIALS SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; STRAIN HARDENING;

TUBE HYDROFORMING;

METAL FORMING;

EID: 0038001688     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(02)01004-X     Document Type: Article

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