A study on numerical simulation of hydroforming of aluminum alloy tube

Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 377-388

  Lang, Lihui ^a   Yuan, Shijian ^b   Wang, Xiaosong ^b   Wang, Z R ^b   Fu, Zhuang ^b   Danckert, J ^a   Nielsen, K B ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Aluminum tube; Experiment; Simulation; Tube hydroforming; Wrinkles

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL; LIGHT WEIGHT STRUCTURES; METAL FORMING; TENSILE TESTING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; WELDING;

ALUMINUM TUBES; EXPERIMENT; TUBE HYDROFORMING;

ALUMINUM ALLOYS;

EID: 1242343555     PISSN: 09240136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2003.11.031     Document Type: Article

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