FEA technique of hot plate forming process using cell-typed die with cooling device

Hot plate forming using a cell-typed die is a process for forming a large thick plate with a spherical shape for the manufacture of a large spherical LNG tank.Cell-typed upper and lower dies made of a framework of steel plates fitted to make a grid pattern are used in this process,and an air-cooling...

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Published in:Transactions of Nonferrous Metals Society of China 2012-12, Vol.22 (S3), p.831-837
Main Authors: LEE, Jung-Min, LEE, In-Kyu, LEE, Kyung-Hun, KIM, Dae-Soon, KIM, Byung-Min
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cell-typed
cell-typed die
coefficient
die
forming
heat
heat transfer coefficient
hot
hot plate forming
LNG
plate
spherical
spherical LNG tank
tank
transfer
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Summary:Hot plate forming using a cell-typed die is a process for forming a large thick plate with a spherical shape for the manufacture of a large spherical LNG tank.Cell-typed upper and lower dies made of a framework of steel plates fitted to make a grid pattern are used in this process,and an air-cooling device is separately installed inside the lower die.A finite element analysis (FEA) technique was developed,which included hot forming,air flow,cooling and thermal deformation analysis for the hot plate forming process using the cell-typed die.Further,the convective and interface heat transfer coefficients were used to reproduce analytically the effects of the cooling device in the hot plate forming analysis.A small-scale model test of the process was conducted to verify the FEA technique.The analysis results show that the curvature of the final plate agrees well with that of the designed experiment within a maximum relative error of 0.03% at the corner of the plate.
ISSN:1003-6326
DOI:10.1016/S1003-6326(12)61812-3