Method of developing complex tool shapes

A method is disclosed for developing the contours of forming tools for fabricating metal members of complex shape such as wing skin and fuselage panels for aircraft. A computer simulation is performed of the age forming process on a geometrical representation of a member having the material properti...

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Hauptverfasser:	HOLMAN, MITCHELL C, FOROUDASTAN, SAEED D
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CHANGING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF NON-FERROUS METALS ANDNON-FERROUS ALLOYS CHEMISTRY CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING FERROUS OR NON-FERROUS ALLOYS FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVINGMATERIAL METALLURGY METALLURGY OF IRON MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS PRESSES PRESSES IN GENERAL PUNCHING METAL REGULATING TRANSPORTING TREATMENT OF ALLOYS OR NON-FERROUS METALS WORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS ORPROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL
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Zusammenfassung:	A method is disclosed for developing the contours of forming tools for fabricating metal members of complex shape such as wing skin and fuselage panels for aircraft. A computer simulation is performed of the age forming process on a geometrical representation of a member having the material properties of a desired metal member. The age forming process includes the steps of: a) overforming an unformed member in a tool having a contour of smaller curvature than the contour of the desired member; b) constraining the unformed member in the overformed condition; c) applying a thermal aging cycle to the member; d) cooling the constrained member following the thermal aging cycle; and e) releasing the constrained member from the condition imparted by step (b) and allowing it to spring back to a dimensionally stable condition which defines the desired member having a surface contour of complex shape. From the simulation, the contour of smaller curvature in step (a) to produce the desired metal member following step (e) is determined.