Titanium Superplastic Forming by Aurock: A Complete Integrated Solution from CAD File to Final Part

Olivier Barrau (1) , Fabien Nazaret (1) , Marion Le Fournier (1) , Etienne Lebard (2) , Yannick Le Maoult (2)

1 Aurock
2 ICA - Institut Clément Ader

With its experience in the SPF simulation and tool manufacturing, Aurock completes its offer in the titanium SPF field with the part forming and brings a global support from the conception up to the manufacturing. Aurock proposes tool design, forming strategy and simulation, rapid tool manufacturing made of refractory castable reinforced with metallic fibre and now titanium superplastic forming. To improve its offer, Aurock started from a blank page and developed a specific SPF press to test and assess new heating solutions. One major innovation permits to reduce the heating time using a direct sheet heating. The process becomes anisothermal. This approach avoid time to heat up to 900°C large toolings. The completed offer for titanium SPF parts and successful results on the heating solutions are presented.

Mots clés: SPF; Titanium; Numerical PID; Aeronautical Part; Simulation

Domaines: Matériaux

Olivier Barrau, Fabien Nazaret, Marion Le Fournier, Etienne Lebard, Yannick Le Maoult. Titanium Superplastic Forming by Aurock: A Complete Integrated Solution from CAD File to Final Part. ICSAM 2015 - 12th International Conference on Superplasticity in Advanced Materials, Sep 2015, Tokyo, Japan. p. 488 - 493, ⟨10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.838-839.488⟩. ⟨hal-01633699⟩