Abstract
Tube hydroforming (THF) is an essential manufacturing technique in the modern days and in general, THF has become a convenient method for built-up complex automobile parts. This process depends mainly on the process parameters like internal pressure, axial feeds, material properties, and other processing conditions. Design by simulation has usually been a trial and error process, where the purpose is to find a feasible and cost effective process to produce a defect free product by altering process parameters. In this study tools required for the tube hydroforming process has modeled in the cad package CATIA V5 and these are imported into the commercial finite element code PAM-STAMP 2G for conducting the simulations. The effects of different process parameters have been investigated by numerical analysis and also the Taguchi Technique for optimization on Aluminum alloy Al99. The optimum conditions have been determined based on their effect on bulge height and thinning distribution of the tube material. Three important process parameters i.e., Internal Pressure, Axial feed and Frictional Coefficient were investigated. Finally, the mutual effect on Aforesaid process parameters on bulge height and thinning distribution were studied.
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