Effect of prestressed ultrasonic peen forming parameters on bending curvature and spherical deformation of plate

The elastic prestressed ultrasonic peen forming (UPF) was adopted in order to solve problems of insufficient bending deformation and large spherical deformation of plate during free UPF. The theoretical analysis of prestressed UPF and the influence of elastic prebending moment on deformation were analyzed. Spherical deformation coefficient was defined to quantificationally describe the spherical deformation. Experiments were conducted to compare the differences between free UPF and prestressed UPF processes and the effects of processing parameters on bending curvature and spherical deformation coefficient were studied. The results show that peening trajectory in chordwise direction is beneficial to enlarging spanwise bending deformation and decreasing spherical deformation coefficient. Large prebending curvature is helpful to increase spanwise bending deformation and decrease chordwise deformation, thereby obviously decreasing spherical deformation coefficient. Large spanwise deformation can be obtained under large firing pin velocity, small plate thickness and small offset distance. Large firing pin velocity plays a positive role in decreasing spherical deformation, while plate thickness and offset distance have little effect on it. Above all, prebending curvature and peening trajectory are the most important factors during prestressed UPF process. This study provides guidance for parameters optimization of prestressed UPF for wing plate with large thickness.