Hot Single Point Incremental Forming of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy

Mikel Ortiz, Mariluz Penalva, Mildred J. Puerto, Petr Homola, Václav Kafka

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Abstract

The lightweight metal alloy Ti-6Al-4V is widely used in the aeronautical industry due to its excellent mechanical properties. However, it is known the difficulty to deform Ti-6Al-4V sheets at room temperature because of its microstructure conditions. The present work focuses on the evaluation of formability of Ti-6Al-4V sheets using hot single point incremental forming (SPIF) process which it seems appropriate to produce small batches of parts due to its flexibility as it allows a significant reduction of costs and lead times. In order to characterize the SPIF of Ti-6Al-4V under hot forming conditions, a set of forming trials evaluation tests was carried out. The obtained results have allowed identifying the key process features and have demonstrated the potential of the proposed approach to hot form of small amounts of Ti-6Al-4V parts.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationunknown
PublisherTrans Tech Publications Ltd
Pages1079-1087
Number of pages9
Volume611-612
ISBN (Print)978-303835106-1, 9783038351061
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event17th Conference of the European Scientific Association on Material Forming, ESAFORM 2014 - Espoo, Finland
Duration: 7 May 20149 May 2014

Publication series

Name1013-9826

Conference

Conference17th Conference of the European Scientific Association on Material Forming, ESAFORM 2014
Country/TerritoryFinland
CityEspoo
Period7/05/149/05/14

Keywords

  • Formability
  • Global Heating
  • Incremental Forming
  • Ti6Al4V
  • Ti-6Al-4V

Project and Funding Information

  • Project ID
  • info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/266208/EU/Innovative Manufacturing of complex Ti sheet components/INMA
  • Funding Info
  • Research leading to these results was done within the project INMA – Innovative manufacturing_x000D_ of complex titanium sheet components. This project has received funding from the European_x000D_ Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and_x000D_ demonstration under grant agreement No. 266208._x000D_ Authors would also like to thank Joachim Zettler from Airbus Group Innovations and Alain_x000D_ Dupuy from Airbus for their support to define the scope of the tests and their analysis.

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