Numerical analysis in a beverage can utilizing tube hydroforming process

Numerical analysis for Tube Hydroforming (THF) was developed in this work to predict the behavior of extruded aluminum tube in a forming die for beverage can applications. THF is a metal forming process dependent of three parameters: friction between the tube and the die, internal pressure, and mate...

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Autores: JORGE CARLOS LEON ANAYA, JOSE ANTONIO JUANICO LORAN, JUAN CARLOS CISNEROS ORTEGA
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:México
Institución:Universidad de Guanajuato
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Guanajuato
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ugto.mx:20.500.12059/1713
Acceso en línea:http://repositorio.ugto.mx/handle/20.500.12059/1713
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/cti/3
Tube
Hydroforming
Numerical
Analysis
Aluminum.
Tubo
Hidroformado
Análisis
Numérico
Aluminio.
Descripción
Sumario:Numerical analysis for Tube Hydroforming (THF) was developed in this work to predict the behavior of extruded aluminum tube in a forming die for beverage can applications. THF is a metal forming process dependent of three parameters: friction between the tube and the die, internal pressure, and material pro-perties of the tube. Strain hardening is a governing phenomenon that occurs in the plastic deformation process of metals. Hollomon’s equation offers a mathematical description of the metal behavior in the plas-tic zone. For a proper simulation, experimental determination of the mechanical properties of aluminum 6061-T5 were conducted and test specimens where obtained directly from the aluminum tube. Experimental data were necessary because no sufficient data of the mechanical properties of the tube were available in the literature. Numerical simulations of THF were performed, and the results were compared with analyti-cal results for validation purposes with less than 10% of error