中国有色金属学报(英文版)
Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China
| Vol. 19 Special 1 September 2009 |
（1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China;
2. College of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou 362021, China）
Abstract:Flexible forming of laminated-composite metal sheets (LCMS) using plasma arc is a latest technique, which produces LCMS components by thermal stress without mould and external force. Considering that the controllable temperature field is the key during the forming process, a three-layer FEM model, based on the characteristics along LCMS thickness direction, was developed to study the variation rules of temperature field, which was verified robustness by experimental validation. Besides, the influences of process parameters such as plasma arc power, scanning speed and plasma arc diameter on LCMS temperature field were performed. The comparisons of LCMS with single layer metal sheet (SLMS) show the temperature difference of LCMS along thickness direction is smaller than that of SLMS, but the heat-affected zone of LCMS along X axis is wider than that of SLMS under the same process parameters.
Key words: laminated-composite metal sheets; plasma arc forming; temperature field; numerical simulation
