| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
13th International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity (ICTP 2021)
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| Symposium
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13th International Conference on the Technology of Plasticity (ICTP 2021)
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| Presentation Title |
Recent Developments of Vaporizing Foil Actuator Technique for Manufacturing Applications |
| Author(s) |
K. Sajun Prasad, Jianxiong Li, Blake D. Barnett, Yu Mao, Glenn S. Daehn, Anupam Vivek |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Anupam Vivek |
| Abstract Scope |
Vaporizing Foil Actuator (VFA) is an impulse or high-speed manufacturing technology using electrically driven rapid vaporization of thin conductors to produce short-duration pressure pulses of high magnitude. This impulse technique has been implemented for varied applications such as high strain rate forming, shearing, collision welding, and springback calibration. VFA technology for manufacturing processes potentially offers improved accuracy, reliability, and environmental safety and creates opportunities to design new products by joining similar and dissimilar material combinations. The paper includes the results of industrially relevant “work-in-progress” research with the VFA tool. The process’s applications, mainly regarding advanced manufacturing such as metal-matrix composite (MMC) welding, axisymmetric welding, and impact-mediated additive manufacturing processes, are presented and discussed. The applications of the method characterize adequate responses to support the manufacturing process. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Definite: At-meeting proceedings |