Hydroforming of Y-shapes - Product and process design using FEA simulation and experiments

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 124-129

  Jirathearanat, Suwat ^a   Hartl, Christoph ^b   Altan, Taylan ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SPS Research Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

FEA simulation; Process design; Tube hydroforming

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FITS AND TOLERANCES; FRICTION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN; RIGIDITY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA) SIMULATION; PROCESS DESIGN; TUBE HYDROFORMING;

TUBES (COMPONENTS);

EID: 0942288487     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-0136(03)00852-5     Document Type: Article

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4. T. Altan, S. Jirathearanat, M. Strano, A. Shr, Adaptive FEM process simulation for hydroforming tubes, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydroforming, Fellbach/Stuttgart, Germany, 2001.