Tube spinning process: Recent advances and challenges

The tube spinning process has attracted much attention because of its simple tooling and good surface finish. This review presents a comprehensive survey of the tube spinning process with a focus on different tube blank materials and spinning methods. The review aims to elaborate the research status of tube spinning process from the aspects of tube material, spinning method and processing performance, and act as a guide for researchers working on tube production and spinning process. In addition, the spinning process will produce large plastic deformation, which will lead to the change of the microstructure of the tube and change its mechanical properties. Therefore, the relationship between the mechanical properties of the tube blank and the spinning parameters is comprehensively expounded from the aspects of yield strength, elongation and material microstructure, and the element diffusion and interface bonding mechanism in the spinning process of the composite tubes are emphatically introduced. In particular, the latest development and trend of composite materials and composite spinning process in tube blank spinning process are discussed. The challenges and prospects of the development of the tube spinning process are put forward, and the direction for future research is pointed out.