The Basic Research on Numerical Simulation of Bimetal Composited T-Tube through Hydraulic Bulging

Abstract

Bimetal composited tube is constituted by two different metals. Comparing with single metal tube, composited tube can make the best of optimum performance of based tube and clad tube. In present research, straight bimetal tubes were taken as the objectives and have been studied deeply. A new hydroform process is introduced in this paper, which can be used to form bimetal composited special tubes. Loading path, loading method, deformation of material, influence of frictional force etc. are studied using numerical simulation fully and the key technique and specialty of this technology were gained. Through simple equipment bimetal composited T-tube has been prepared.