Investigation of Al 2024 metal spinning on surface roughness using conical mandrel

Abstract

Spinning is widely used metal forming process to fabricate components or products have rotational symmetry. It is a localized metal forming process which is mainly used due to its advantage of high quality associated with low cost for manufacture. In this process a tool is pressed against the rotating pre form of final product. The surface rough ness is one of the important parameters of spun product which are used in aerospace industry. In the present study an investigation is carried out on Al2024 material to get a conical product by adopting Taguchi OA methodology for experimentation. The experiment is carried out by using two different geometry rollers namely single roller and double radii roller at two different rotational speeds on different thickness of sheets as input parameters. The surface roughness is the target response in this investigation. Regression model for surface roughness is developed using MiniTAB software. Further Analysis of Variance was carried out to find the contribution of each parameter on the response.