A New Approach to Determining the Bending Moment in Tube Forming

摘要

The article deals with more precise method of bending moment determination for rigid plastic work hardening material. Unlike earlier methods, a new methodology takes into account the real shape of the deformed tube cross-section after bending. The real centroid position of the tube cross-section, the change of the wall thickness and the irregularly deformed tube crosssection are considered. The paper presents a possible way of determining the real bending moment, reflecting the geometrical changes of the "flattened" cross-section. This approach is based on the subsequent integration of elementary bending moments, which reflects successive changes of the bending stress and a material model as well.