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The Residual Stress Relief and Deformation Control of Al Alloy Thin-Walled Antenna Components by Ultrasonic Regulation
Summary
Researchers used ultrasonic critical refraction wave detection to measure residual stress distributions in aluminum alloy plates and showed that applying ultrasonic stress relief treatment at each machining stage progressively reduces deformation, enabling the production of large thin-walled antenna components with significantly improved flatness.
The residual stress fields of the initial billet and subsequent machining in the material bring great challenges to the precision machining and geometrical stability of aluminum alloy thin-walled components. To ensure that a certain type of large-sized aluminum alloy thin-walled antenna has a small flatness deformation during forming, this paper firstly employed the ultrasonic critical refraction longitudinal wave (LCR wave) detection method to measure the different depth ranges’ residual stress distribution of 5A06/6061/7075 aluminum alloy plate, both as blanks and after multiple milling. Additionally, the effects of inherent residual stress (IRS) and machining-induced residual stress (MIRS) on the subsequent milling deformation were analyzed. After that, combined with the self-developed ultrasonic stress relief (USR) system, the deformation control effect of a thin-walled plate after eliminating residual stress in each stage was tested. The results show that the ultrasonic stress relief treatment can quickly and efficiently eliminate the IRS and MIRS with small flatness deformation. By introducing the URS treatment in the blank, rough machining, and semi-finishing stages, the components before each subsequent machining are in a low-stress state, and the component deformation can be gradually controlled so that the final thin-walled antenna has a smaller flatness.
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