CA2531793A1 - Method for the production of a semi-finished product for a wing-shaped element - Google Patents

Method for the production of a semi-finished product for a wing-shaped element Download PDF

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CA2531793A1
CA2531793A1 CA002531793A CA2531793A CA2531793A1 CA 2531793 A1 CA2531793 A1 CA 2531793A1 CA 002531793 A CA002531793 A CA 002531793A CA 2531793 A CA2531793 A CA 2531793A CA 2531793 A1 CA2531793 A1 CA 2531793A1
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Petrus Hendrikus De Been
Ettje-Neeltje Straatsma
Maurits Egbertus V.D. Pol
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Stork Fokker AESP BV
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Petrus Hendrikus De Been
Ettje-Neeltje Straatsma
Maurits Egbertus V.D. Pol
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B21MECHANICAL METAL-WORKING WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21DWORKING OR PROCESSING OF SHEET METAL OR METAL TUBES, RODS OR PROFILES WITHOUT ESSENTIALLY REMOVING MATERIAL; PUNCHING METAL
    • B21D53/00Making other particular articles
    • B21D53/78Making other particular articles propeller blades; turbine blades
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/49Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49316Impeller making
    • Y10T29/49336Blade making
    • Y10T29/49339Hollow blade
    • YGENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10TTECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T29/00Metal working
    • Y10T29/49Method of mechanical manufacture
    • Y10T29/49616Structural member making
    • Y10T29/49622Vehicular structural member making

Abstract

A method for the production of a semi-finished product (13) for a wing-shaped element (15) having, in cross-section, a front edge (2), a rear edge (14) and an arched bottom wall (3) and an arched top wall (4) that extend some distance apart between the front edge (2) and the rear edge (14), comprises the following steps: bending the sheet (1) with the formation of two panels (3, 4) as well as a curved region (2) which the panels (3, 4) adjoin, placing a former (10) in the bent sheet (1) with the front edge of the former (9) positioned in the curved region (2), forcing the pressure member (8) towards a rubber cushion (7) with the bent sheet (1) enclosed between them and deforming said sheet between the former (10) and the rubber cushion (7), placing the shaped sheet (F) in a rubber press provided with a bottom block having a cavity (16) which has a shape that at least approximately corresponds to the external shape of one of the walls (3, 4) of the shaped sheet (P), pressing the shaped sheet (F) with former (10) between the bottom block (11) and a rubber mat (12), removing the semi-finished product (13) from the rubber press.

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Method for the production of a semi-finished product for a win -~.sha~ed element The invention relates to a method for the production of a semi-finished product fox a wing-shaped element and of the wing-shaped element itself. Such wing-shaped elements are found in many different embodiments. A so-called vane, which is fixed to a flap of an aircraft wing, is 'mentioned as an example.
Various production methods for such wing-shaped elements are known. Extrusion of the element is mentioned first. In such a case the element does not have to be made up of separate components, which is quick and relatively inexpensive. The disadvantage, however, is that the dimensional tolerance is poor. This arises, in particular, in the case of relatively small thicknesses. According to a further known method the element is produced from sheet material. After pre-forming the sheet material, this is stretched on a stretcher leveller for making sections that has a bottom block and top block. A mandrel is incorporated in the pre-formed sheet material. The whole is clamped at the longitudinal ends and then stretched. The disadvantage of this known method is that the surface obtained has irregularities.
The aim of the invention is to provide a method for the production of a semi-finished product for a wing-shaped element that does not have these disadvantages. Said aim is achieved by means of a method for the production of a semi-finished product for a wing-shaped element having, in cross-section, a front edge, a rear edge and an arched bottom wall and an arched top wall that extend some distance apart between the front edge and the rear edge, comprising the following steps:
- providing a metal sheet, - be~~di~xg the sheet with the fora~~~tas~n of t-~o pa~ael~ a.~ yell a~ a curFie~l regioxi vrhich 2~ the panels adjoin, - pro~iiding a. former, the e~~terbor of vJhich h~,s the shape of the inter~~al surface of the frnislle l section - placing the former in the bent sheet with the front edge of the former positioned in the curved region, - providing an edge press provided with a pressure member and a rubber cushion located opposite, - fixing the former to the pressure member, - forcing the pressure member towards the rubber cushion with the bent sheet enclosed between them and deforming 'said sheet between the former and the rubber cushion, - removing the former with shaped sheet from the edge press, - placing these in a rubber press provided with a bottom block having a cavity which has a shape that at least approximately corresponds to the external shape of one of the walls of the shaped sheet, - pressing the shaped sheet with former between the bottom block and a rubber mat, - removing the semi-finished product from the rubber press.
With the method according to the invention the semi-finished product is shaped by exerting pressing forces thereon via rubber elements. In combination with the former acting as a mandrel that has the correct contour, an extremely accurate shape is obtained by this means which has a surface that has the smoothness desired for aircraft for aerodynamic reasons.
The two panels are preferably arched after, or before, or at the same time as bending the sheet. The arching can be oriented in the same direction in order to obtain a relatively strong cured element.1-Iowever, the archings can also be oriented away from one another.
fending and optionally arching the panels can be effected by means of roller forming or by means of rolling. The rear edge of the element can be made as a section that is fixed to the top wall and the bottom wall. Fuuthermore, the wing-shaped element can be subjected to a heat treatment, for example stress-free annealing or solution annealing.
The invention also relates to a wing-shaped element produced in accordance with the method according to the method described above, which element, for example, can be a~~~~~1~ ~~ ~. ~~~r_~~~e I~.eference is made t~ the wing-shaped element that is disclosed in ~.T~-~ 4 X31 2~Oo This element is prcaducesl from ~, relatively flat section that comprises two panels that forim a, whole and i~a ~%hich the arching of the ultiamate walls has been pre-produced by s locs.115~
greater material thickness. The element is obtained from this by simply folding the panels onto one another, after which the element is ready. The element concerned here is in the form of a blade for turbines.
The invention will be explained in more detail below with reference to an illustrative embodiment shown in the figures.

Fig. 1 shows a curved and arched sheet that serves as starting material for the method according to the invention.
Fig. 2 shows the element in an edge press.
Fig. 3 shows the result after performing a treatment in the edge press.
Fig. 4 shows a perspective view of the rubber press block of a rubber press, with the mandrel.
Fig. 5 shows the product obtained after rubber pressing.
Fig. 6 shows the finished wing-shaped element.
When carrying out the method according to the invention the starting material used is the bent sheet 1 shown in Fig. 1, which has been bent with the formation of a bent front edge 2, a concave arched panel 3 and a convex arched panel 4. This bent sheet 1 is placed in the edge press 5 shown in Fig. 2, which has a base 6 with rubber cushion 7 as well as a pressing member 8 that can be moved up and down and to which the former 10 is fixed by means of the supports 9. This former 10 or mandrel 10 is also shown in a perspective view in Fig. 4. It has the shape of the internal surface of the finished wing-shaped element, that is to say with a front edge, rear edge and arched top surface and bottom surface. The former can have a prismatic shape but also a twisted shape.
When pressing the bent sheet 1 in the edge press, the front edge of the fornler 10 is pushed into the curved region 2 of the sheet 1. ~y this means this curved region is curved ~0 more severely around the front edge of the former 10, under the influence of the even inward pressure by the rubber cushion 7. As a consequence of this, the arched panels 3 and 4 come closer together, as shown in Fig. 3.
The sheet 1 further shaped in this way is then placed in a rubber press, the rubber la~-e~ blo~l~ 11 of e~~hach can be se Ja~a i~a F'ig. ~., tl~e i~~teriar sh~lae of ~,~lvich corre~laon~-1~ t~
'~ J the front edge and an arched surface of the ~~,ring-shaped element.
T'r~gether with ma~ld~rel 109 the sheet 1g v~hach now has the sl~~.pe as ~ho~vn in Fig. 3, as placed in this ~-ubbex press block 11. The rubber rnat 1~ is then placed on top of the whole of ths, after which the sheet 1 with the mandrel 10 therein is compressed between the rubber press block 11 aa~d the rubber mat 12 by a press (not shown).
30 After rubber pressing, the semi-finished product 13 shown in Fig. 5 is obtained, which has a curved front edge 2, a convex arched top surface 2 and a concave arched bottom surface 3. Finally, the section indicated in its entirety by 14 is fixed to the rear, free ends of the walls 2, 3. For this purpose the section has a body 15 with sides 1 ~, 17 tapering down with respect to one another that are oriented in accordance with the run of the top wall 2 and the bottom wall 3. The section 14 is fixed to the semi-finished product 13 by means of rivets 18 driven through the top wall 2, the body 15 and the bottom wall 3, after which the wing-shaped element 15 is ready. As an alternative, the walls 2, 3 can also be fixed directly to one another, such as by bonding, riveting and the like.

Claims (15)

1. Method for the production of a semi-finished product (13) for a wing-shaped element (15) having, in cross-section, a front edge (2), a rear edge (14) and an arched bottom wall (3) and an arched top wall (4) that extend some distance apart between the front edge (2) and the rear edge (14), comprising the following steps:

- providing a metal sheet (1), - bending the sheet (1) with the formation of two panels (3, 4) as well as a curved region (2) which the panels (3, 4) adjoin, - providing a former (10), the exterior of which has the shape of the internal surface of the finished element (15), - placing the former (10) in the bent sheet (1) with the front edge of the former (9) positioned in the curved region (2), - providing an edge press (5) provided with a pressure member (8) and a rubber cushion (7) located opposite, - fixing the former (10) to the pressure member (8), - forcing the pressure member (8) towards the rubber cushion (7) with the bent sheet (1) enclosed between them and deforming said sheet between the former (10) and the rubber cushion (7), - removing the former (10) with shaped sheet (1') from the edge press (5), - placing the shaped sheet (1') in a rubber press provided with a bottom block having a cavity (16) which has a shape that at least approximately corresponds to the external shape of one of the walls (3, 4) of the shaped sheet (1'), - pressing the shaped sheet (1') with former (10) between the bottom block (11) and a rubber mat (12), - removing the semi-finished product (13) from the rubber press.
2. Method according to Claim 1, wherein the two panels (3,4) are arched after, or before, or at the same time as bending the sheet (1).
3. Method according to one of the preceding claims, comprising bending the curved region (2) and optionally arching the panels (3, 4) by means of roller forming.
4. Method according to one of the preceding claims, comprising bending the curved region (2) and optionally arching the panels (3, 4) by means of rolling.
5. Method according to one of the preceding claims, comprising constructing the rear edge using a section (14) that is fixed to the top wall (3) and the bottom wall (4) with the formation of a wing-shaped element (15).
6. Method according to one of the preceding claims, including a heat treatment step, such as stress-free annealing or solution annealing of the semi-finished product (13).
7. Wing-shaped element (15) produced in accordance with the method according to one of the preceding claims, made as a vane.
8. Element (15) according to Claim 7 as produced by means of the method according to Claim 5, wherein the section (14) has a body (19) that extends between the panels (3, 4).
9. Element (15) according to Claim 8, wherein the panels (3, 4) and the body (19) are fixed to one another by rivets (18), bonding and the like.
10. Element (15) according to Claim 8 or 9, wherein the surfaces (16, 17) of the body (19) facing away from one another run obliquely with respect to one another in accordance with the run of the panels (3, 4).
11. Element (15) according to Claim 7, wherein the panels (3,4) are fixed directly to one another.
12. Element (15) according to one of Claims 7 - 12, comprising a sheet (1) with a thickness in the range of 0.8 - 2.0 mm.
13. Element (15) according to one of Claims 12, comprising a sheet (1) with a thickness in the range of 1.4 - 1.6 mm.
14. Element (15) according to one of Claims 12 or 13, comprising a sheet (1) with a thickness in the region of 1.6 mm.
15. Element (15) according to one of Claims 7 - 12, comprising a sheet material consisting of Al, Ti, Sc, Cu, Mg, Li and/or alloys thereof and/or steel and/or stainless steel.
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