Effects of Pre-Form Thickness Variations on Product Thickness Accuracy in Multi-Rollers Flow-Forming

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An advantage of the flow-forming process is high accuracy of products. Most researches in the past decades studied product diametric accuracy but to the authors’ knowledge, they investigated rarely thickness accuracy. In this paper, a procedure is proposed to predict effects of the process parameters such as pre-form thickness variation and mandrel and rollers stiffness on product thickness accuracy. For this purpose, rollers forces are calculated as a function of pre-form thickness variation and mandrel and rollers deflections. Using this function, product thickness variation and mandrel deflection are calculated and it is concluded that pre-form thickness variation causes product thickness variation with similar distribution but the amount of variation largely decreases. The experiments also verify this prediction.
In addition, the applied force to the mandrel is investigated and it is also concluded that a periodic force with similar distribution to the pre-form thickness is applied to the mandrel. Finally, it is shown that flow-forming with three rollers produce more accurate products than a two rollers case.

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Amirkabir Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Volume 44, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
February 2013
Pages 103-112

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