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Distortions in Large Aluminum Forgings: Current Situation and Simulation Challenges

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Distortions after machining of large aluminum forgings are a recurrent problem for the aeronautical industry. These deviations from design geometry are caused by the presence of residual stresses, which are developed along the manufacturing chain. To solve this problem, a series of post-machining operations called reshaping are required. Despite reshaping manages to restore the correct geometry, it is highly manual and time-consuming, therefore, there is a need at an industrial level to use numerical simulation to study reshaping. The present document describes the problem of distortion, the operations required to mitigate these geometrical defects and the challenges associated to simulate reshaping.

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    Nowadays, the biggest forging has a capacity of 80k ton and is located in China Du et al. [10].

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    Action to replace composite structures to single components.

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This project is part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN-ETN AdMoRe funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation program with grant number 675919.

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    Ramiro Mena & Stéphane Guinard

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    Ramiro Mena & José V. Aguado

  3. Laboratori de Calcul Numeric (LaCàN), Departament de Matematica Aplicada III, E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Ramiro Mena & Antonio Huerta

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Mena, R., Guinard, S., Aguado, J.V., Huerta, A. (2020). Distortions in Large Aluminum Forgings: Current Situation and Simulation Challenges. In: Diez, P., Neittaanmäki, P., Periaux, J., Tuovinen, T., Pons-Prats, J. (eds) Computation and Big Data for Transport. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol 54. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37752-6_14

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