High-efficiency forming processes for complex thin-walled titanium alloys components: state-of-the-art and perspectives

Complex thin-walled titanium alloy components play a key role in the aircraft,aerospace and marine industries,offering the advantages of reduced weight and increased thermal resistance.The geometrical complexity,dimensional accuracy and in-service properties are essential to fulfill the high-performance standards required in new transportation systems,which brings new challenges to titanium alloy forming technologies.Traditional forming processes,such as superplastic forming or hot pressing,cannot meet all demands of modern applications due to their limited properties,low productivity and high cost.This has encouraged industry and research groups to develop novel high-efficiency forming processes.Hot gas pressure forming and hot stamping-quenching technologies have been developed for the manufacture of tubular and panel components,and are believed to be the cut-edge processes guaranteeing dimensional accuracy,microstructure and mechanical properties.This article intends to provide a critical review of high-efficiency titanium alloy forming processes,concentrating on latest investigations of controlling dimensional accuracy,microstructure and properties.The advantages and limitations of individual forming process are comprehensively analyzed,through which,future research trends of high-efficiency forming are identified including trends in process integration,processing window design,full cycle and multi-objective optimization.This review aims to provide a guide for researchers and process designers on the manufacture of thin-walled titanium alloy components whilst achieving high dimensional accuracy and satisfying performance properties with high efficiency and low cost.

Intelligent fault diagnosis methods toward gas turbine: A review

Fault diagnosis plays a significant role in conducting condition-based maintenance and health management for gas turbines(GTs) to improve reliability and reduce costs. Various diagnosis methods developed by modeling engine systems or certain components implement faults detection and diagnosis based on the measurement of systemic parameters deviations. However, these conventional model-based methods are hindered by limitations of inability to handle the nonlinear nature, measurement uncertainty, fault coupling and other implementing problems. Recently, the development of artificial intelligence algorithms has provided an effective solution to the above problems, triggering broad researches for data-driven fault diagnosis methods with better accuracy,dynamic performance, and universality. This paper presents a systematic review of recently proposed intelligent fault diagnosis methods for GT engines, according to the classification of shallow learning methods, deep learning methods and hybrid intelligent methods. Moreover, the principle of typical algorithms, the evolution of enhanced methods, and the assessment of pros and cons are summarized to conclude the present status and look forward to the future in the field of GT fault diagnosis. Possible directions for development in method validation, information fusion, and interpretability of intelligent diagnosis methods are concluded in the end to provide insightful concepts for scholars in related fields.

Effects of strain state and slip mode on the texture evolution of a near-α TA15 titanium alloy during hot deformation based on crystal plasticity method

A thorough understanding of the texture evolution of near-αtitanium alloys during the hot metal forming can help obtain an optimal crystallographic texture and material performance.The strain state has an obvious effect on the texture evolution of near-αtitanium alloys during the hot metal forming.In this paper,the texture evolution of a near-αTA15 titanium alloy during the hot metal forming under different strain states were discussed based on the crystal plasticity finite element method.It is found that the basal and prismatic slip systems are regarded as the dominant slip modes due to the similar low critical resolved shear stress during the hot metal forming of the TA15 sheet rotating the lattice around the[1010]and 0001 axis,respectively.Once both of them cannot be activated,the pyramidal-2 slipping occurs rotating the lattice around the[1010]axis.The relationship between the texture evolution and strain state is established.All the(0001)orientations form a band perpendicular to the direction of the first principal strain.The width of the band along the direction of the second principal strain depends on the ratio of the compressive effect to the tensile effect of the second principal strain.This relationship can help control the crystallographic texture and mechanical properties of the titanium alloys component during the hot metal forming.