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Journal of Mechanical Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 60 ›› Issue (18): 89-115.doi: 10.3901/JME.2024.18.089

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Research Progress of Ultrasonic Assisted Micro-plastic Forming Process

WAN Weiqiang1, HAN Guangchao1,2, WANG Xinyun3, Lü Pei1, LIU Fuchu1,2, HU Jitao1, BAI Wei1,2, XU Linhong1   

  1. 1. School of Mechanical Engineering & Electronic Information, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074;
    2. Shenzhen Research Institute, China University of Geosciences, Shenzhen 518057;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Materials Processing and Die & Mould Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
  • Received:2023-11-08 Revised:2024-06-11 Online:2024-09-20 Published:2024-11-15

Abstract: With the development of the manufacturing technology, products tend to be miniaturized and precised. Metal microplastic forming technology has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency and high precision, and has been widely used in important fields such as micro-electromechanical systems, aerospace, biomedicine and military. In particular, the ultrasonic-assisted microplastic forming process has many advantages such as reducing forming load, reducing tool/mold cavity-sample interface friction, improving forming surface quality, increasing forming limit and uniformity, etc. It was effectively solved the forming defects caused by size effects, and it had become an important application of the development direction of the metal microplastic forming technology. Based on the review of the research status of ultrasonic-assisted microplastic forming process, mechanism and theoretical model, the effects of different ultrasonic vibration modes (tool vibration, workpiece vibration, tool-workpiece composite vibration) on the forming quality and mechanical properties during the microplastic forming process were analyzed. The future development trend of ultrasonic-assisted microplastic forming process was prospected. Research on the coupling mechanism of ultrasonic action and size effect and its quantitative analysis, and the synergistic application of multi-energy fields and composite processes will be new directions to exploring microplastic forming technology.

Key words: ultrasonic vibration, micro-plastic forming process, vibration modes, forming mechanism

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