Superplastic forming gas pressure of titanium alloy bellows

来源期刊：中国有色金属学报(英文版)2004年第5期

论文作者：王刚 张凯锋 陈军 阮雪榆

文章页码：896 - 900

Key words：superplastic forming; bellows; Ti-6Al-4V; pressure

Abstract: The complex superplastic forming (SPF) technology applying gas pressure and compressive axial load is an advanced forming method for titanium alloy bellows，whose forming process consists of the three main forming phases namely bulging, clamping and calibrating phase. The influence of forming gas pressure in various phases on the forming process was analyzed and the models of forming gas pressure for bellows were derived according to the thin shell theory and the plasticity deformation theory. Using the model values, taking a two-convolution DN250 Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy bellows as an example, a series of superplastic forming tests were performed to evaluate the influence of the variation of forming gas pressure on the forming process. According to the experimental results these models were corrected to make the forming gas pressures prediction more accurate.