Production System for Thin-walled Tube Bending
2003-01-2787
10/27/2003
- Event
- Content
- In the bending of thin-walled tube, wrinkles occur easily and it is difficult to maintain precision of shape. We focused on a hydro-bending (water mandrel) method in which both ends of the tube are tightly sealed with reusable pressure-resistant plugs, and filled with water, and bent while water pressure high. The result is a high-quality bending method capable of producing quality products in one process with the thin-walled tubes (external diameter 38.1mm, wall thickness 0.85mm, bend radius 60mm) that had been considered difficult to mass-produce in the past.
- Pages
- 6
- Citation
- Tashiro, Y., and Yoshino, T., "Production System for Thin-walled Tube Bending," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2787, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2787.