Abstract:
To explore the feasibility of directly spinning thin-walled components from aged aluminum alloy sheets under rapid laser heating, the laser-assisted spinning process of aged 7075-T6 aluminum alloy was carried out by means of an ellipsoid component shear spinning test. Compared with cold spinning, the critical thinning of the laser-assisted spun component was more than 30 % higher than that of the cold spun component, and the laser-assisted spun component has good geometric accuracy, which indicates that the formability of the 7075-T6 aluminum alloy can significantly be improved with the laser-assisted spinning process. [..]
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