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Development of Tube End-forming Process using Roll Die  

Kim, Yeong-Hwan (한국국제대학교 기계자동차공학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers / v.10, no.4, 2011 , pp. 121-126 More about this Journal
Abstract
An accumulator placed on the refrigerant cycle pipe lines is a part to relax fluctuations of pressure within the pipe lines and stabilize refrigerants flowed into pipe. The accumulator has been mainly manufactured by the process of tube spinning using CNC(Computer Numerical Control) lathe. However, this process has the defects which are low productivity per hour and high cost. For that reason, tube end-forming using roll die is actively being developed, recently. The purpose of this study is to develope the tube end-forming process using roll die in order to manufacture the accumulator for the refrigeration pipe lines. First, the process design of tube end-forming was performed based on specification of product, and then was verified with FE analysis. Also, the effects of friction coefficient and revolution speed of roll die on forming load were investigated. The analytical results were applied in the final process design of tube end-forming. Finally, tube end-forming test was carried out to verify the validity of the FE analysis and the process design.
Keywords
Tube End-forming Process; FE Analysis; Accumulator;
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