| Title |
Hydroforming of Large Grain Niobium Tube |
| Authors |
- A. Mapar, F. Pourboghrat
MSU, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- T.R. Bieler
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- C. Compton
FRIB, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- J.E. Murphy
University of Nevada, Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
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| Abstract |
Currently most of Niobium (Nb) cavities are manufactured from fine grain Nb sheets. As-cast ingots go through a series of steps including forging, milling, rolling, and intermediate annealing, before they are deep-drawn into a half-cell shape and subsequently electron beam welded to make a full cavity. Tube hydroforming, a manufacturing technique where a tube is deformed using a pressurized fluid, is an alternative to the current costly manufacturing process. A whole cavity can be made from a tube using tube hydroforming. This study focuses on deformation of large grain Nb tubes during hydroforming. The crystal orientation of the grains is recorded. The tube is marked with a square-circle-grid which is used to measure the strain after deformation. The deformation of the tube is going to be modeled with crystal plasticity finite element and compared with experiments. This paper only covers the characterization of the tube and the hydroforming process.
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| Funding |
This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, through Grant No. DE-FG02-09ER41638. |
| Paper |
download THPB040.PDF [2.579 MB / 5 pages] |
| Conference |
SRF2015, Whistler, BC, Canada |
| Series |
International Conference on RF Superconductivity (17th) |
| Proceedings |
Link to full SRF2015 Proccedings |
| Session |
Poster Session |
| Date |
17-Sep-15 14:30–17:40 |
| Main Classification |
SRF Technology - Cavity |
| Keywords |
niobium, cavity, experiment, vacuum, electron |
| Publisher |
JACoW, Geneva, Switzerland |
| Editors |
Robert E. Laxdal (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Jana Thomson (TRIUMF, Vancouver, BC, Canada); Volker RW Schaa (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany) |
| ISBN |
978-3-95450-178-6 |
| Published |
December 2015 |
| Copyright |
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