Glazing of tool dies for semi-solid steel forming

Semi-solid processing of tool steel

Semi-solid processing (SSP) of alloys has been used commercially since the early eighties for the manufacture of components in the automobile and aerospace industries. The thrust of the early development has been in aluminium and copper alloys. The nature of the process makes it an ideal candidate for the manufacture of components in alloys which are either difficult or virtually impossible to ...

Hot Forming of Aisi A2 Tool Steel

In order to optimize the hot forming process of tool steels, further improvement of flow stress prediction and additional knowledge on hot deformability, especially at lower and upper limits of the hot working range, are required. The hot working ranges for these steels are very narrow as a consequence of the role of alloying elements, which form carbides. Carbides improve tool steel’s hardenab...

Application of X-ray Microtomography to Quantify the Liquid Fraction of M2 Steel for Semi-solid Forming process

Thixoforging, one variant of semi-solid metal processing in which the metallic alloys are processed at low liquid fraction (0.1< Fl < 0.3), is used to produce complex parts with high mechanical properties. Steel thixoforging faces more challenges as compared to that of low melting point materials due to high processing temperature and lack of understanding of the thermomechanical behavior of ma...

Photoelastic Investigation of Metal-forming Processes Using New Sapphire Dies

Sapphire dies (of single-crystal aluminum oxide) are used to obtain interfacial conditions along the contact surface of the die in a strip-drawing operation. Several solutions based on slip-line field analysis and upper-bound techniques are available for metal-forming problems. However, these solutions generally neglect elasticity and work-hardening and assume that friction is constant along th...

Process Mapping of Laser Glazing Aisi 316l Stainless Steel for Biomedical Implants