Hydro-joining is composed of hydro-piercing, hole flanging and nut-inlaying processes. In this study, a new hydro-flanging process combining hydro-piercing proposed. An internal pressured fluid used as the supporting medium instead rigid die. Three kinds punch head shapes are designed to explore thickness distribution flanged tube leakage effects between in process. A finite element code DEFORM...

Grain size gradient materials are a type of new structural material with the advantages both coarse and fine grains. To study effect normal grain on mechanical properties microstructure aluminum alloy tubes during hydroforming, distribution outer inner grains was obtained using spinning annealing methods, biaxial stress determined hydraulic bulging experiments. Gradient thicknesses 300, 475, 57...

Solar power is often regarded as one of the most promising forms alternative energy since it both sustainable and renewable. It difficult to utilize benefit from solar in residential industrial applications because intermittent nature its supply. A solar-based water heating system efficient for using thermal conversion, simplest successful method turning into energy. In this research, performan...

Rolling is one of the most employed industrial processes which can be used at multiple manufacturing stages, allowing different geometries such as plates, rods, profiles, billets, slabs, tubes, and seamless tubes to obtained. However, rolled products develop anisotropy due preferential orientation crystals in rolling direction. Thus, some process configurations processing parameters (e.g., thic...

A methodological and software tool was developed for the effective assessment of properties three-dimensional composites matrix type periodically structured composite materials using modern methods boundary finite elements. Continuum mechanics models have been modified to adequately describe behavior composites, numerical simulation adapted these solving static problems in frequency domain. The...

To develop advanced nuclear fuel claddings, two oxide dispersion strengthened (ODS) alloys were designed, manufactured, and evaluated. First, 12 %Cr alloy, is an ODS-version of ferritic steel, second, 10 %Cr-6 %Al a high-strength version accident tolerant iron-chrome-aluminum alloy. Their properties performance compared with “classical” ODS material, 14 alloy 14WYT. Thin-walled (∼500 µm wall th...