Incremental sheet forming of metal-based composites used in aviation and automotive applications

Trzepieciński, Tomasz (author), Najm, Sherwan Mohammed (author), Pepelnjak, Tomaž (author), Bensaid, Kamel (author), Szpunar, Marcin (author)

For several years, the aviation industry has seen dynamic growth in the use of composite materials due to their low weight and high stiffness. Composites are being considered as a means of building lighter, safer, and more fuel-efficient automobiles. Composite materials are the building material of a relatively new kind of unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone. Incremental forming methods allow materials to be quickly formed without the need to manufacture conventional metal dies. Their advantage is the high profitability during the production of prototypes and a small series of products when compared with the conventional methods of plastic forming. This article provides an overview of the incremental forming capabilities of the more commonly produced aluminium- and titanium-based laminates, which are widely used in the aircraft industry. In addition, for composites that are not currently incrementally formed, i.e., aramid-reinforced aluminium laminates, the advantages and potential for incremental forming are presented.

• Language: English
• Keywords: aluminium alloys, bimetallic sheets, CARALL, composite sheets, GLARE, metal-based composites, sheet forming
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.10.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 19 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 6, iss. 10, art. 295
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-141945
• UDC: 621.7
• ISSN on article: 2504-477X
• DOI: 10.3390/jcs6100295
• COBISS.SI-ID: 125236995
• Publication date in RUL: 12.10.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of composites science
• Shortened title: J. compos. sci.
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2504-477X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 529755673

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: aluminijeve zlitine, bimetalne plošče, CARALL, kompozitne plošče, GLARE, kompoziti na osnovi kovin, preoblikovanje plošč

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0248
• Name: Inovativni izdelovalni sistemi in procesi