Effects of process parameters on numerical control bending process for large diameter thin-walled aluminum alloy tubes

Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China (English Edition)

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 668-673

  LI, Cheng ^a   YANG, He ^a   ZHAN, Mei ^a   XU, Xu dong ^b   LI, Guang jun ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group Corporation Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

large diameter thin walled aluminum alloy tubes; numerical control bending process; small bending radius

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM ALLOY TUBES; ALUMINUM TUBES; BENDING EXPERIMENTS; BENDING PROCESS; BENDING RADIUS; CENTERLINE; CROSS SECTION DISTORTION; DIFFERENT PROCESS; FORMING QUALITY; LARGE DIAMETER; LARGE DIAMETER THIN-WALLED ALUMINUM ALLOY TUBES; NUMERICAL CONTROL; NUMERICAL CONTROL BENDING PROCESS; OUTER DIAMETERS; PROCESS PARAMETERS; SMALL BENDING RADIUS; SMALL-DIAMETER; THIN WALLED TUBES; THIN-WALLED; TUBE WALLS; WALL THICKNESS;

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM ALLOYS; ALUMINUM METALLURGY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; THIN WALLED STRUCTURES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BENDING (FORMING);

EID: 66449128045     PISSN: 10036326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1003-6326(08)60331-3     Document Type: Article

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