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Research on compact manufacturing technology for shape and performance controllability of metallic components can realize the simplification and high-reliability of manufacturing process on the premise of satisfying the requirement of macro/micro-structure. It is not only the key paths in improving performance, saving material and energy, and green manufacturing of components used in major equipments, but also the challenging subjects in frontiers of advanced plastic forming. To provide a novel horizon for the manufacturing in the critical components is significant. Focused on the high-performance large-scale components such as bearing rings, flanges, railway wheels, thick-walled pipes, etc, the conventional processes and their developing situations are summarized. The existing problems including multi-pass heating, wasting material and energy, high cost and high-emission are discussed, and the present study unable to meet the manufacturing in high-quality components is also pointed out. Thus, the new techniques related to casting-rolling compound precise forming of rings, compact manufacturing for duplex-metal composite rings, compact manufacturing for railway wheels, and casting-extruding continuous forming of thick-walled pipes are introduced in detail, respectively. The corresponding research contents, such as casting ring blank, hot ring rolling, near solid-state pressure forming, hot extruding, are elaborated. Some findings in through-thickness microstructure evolution and mechanical properties are also presented. The components produced by the new techniques are mainly characterized by fine and homogeneous grains. Moreover, the possible directions for further development of those techniques are suggested. Finally, the key scientific problems are first proposed. All of these results and conclusions have reference value and guiding significance for the integrated control of shape and performance in advanced compact manufacturing.
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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos. 51675361, 51575371), Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 51135007), and Key Research Project of Shanxi Province (Grant No. 03012015004).
QIN Fangcheng, born in 1988, is currently PhD candidate at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China. His research interests include advanced manufacturing technology for material processing.
LI Yongtang, born in 1957, is currently a professor and a PhD candidate supervisor at Taiyan University of Science and Technology, China. He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1994. His research interests include advanced technology for material manufacture and process, hydraulic system modeling and simulation.
QI Huiping, born in 1974, is an associate professor at Taiyan University of Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include advanced manufacturing technology for material processing, plastic successive and precision forming.
JU Li, born in 1972, is currently PhD candidate at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, China. She is also an associate professor at Taiyan University of Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include advanced manufacturing technology for material processing, the design and control of forging machine.
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Qin, F., Li, Y., Qi, H. et al. Advances in compact manufacturing for shape and performance controllability of large-scale components-a review. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 30, 7–21 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2016.1102.128
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