Today's forging die manufacturing process must be adapted to several evolutions in machining process generation: CAD/CAM models, CAM software solutions and High Speed Machining (HSM). In this context, the adequacy between die shape and HSM process is in the core of machining preparation and process planning approaches. This paper deals with an original approach of machining preparation integrat...

Complex shapes are widely used to design products in several industries such as aeronautics, automotive and domestic appliances. Several variations of their curvatures and orientations generate difficulties during their manufacturing or the machining of dies used in moulding, injection and forging. Analysis of several parts highlights two levels of difficulties between three types of shapes: pr...

Deep drawing is a sheet metal forming process which is widely used in manufacturing parts for automobile and air craft industries. In this paper, the mechanism of deformation, effect of the geometrical parameters involved and the defects encountered in the process are presented and discussed. These include: the radial clearance percentage, punch and die profile radii. Despite the number of publ...

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A typical extrusion of low and medium strength aluminium alloys solid shapes is performed with flat pocket dies. The pocket allows realising the extrusion as “billet-to-billet” process, and also facilitates filling-up die channel deadlocks and thin-walled elements of profile [1]. In addition it serves as an instrument for shape geometry control. The scientific literature contains a variety of r...

Die-design for the die-casting process is a time consuming and complex activity that requires domain knowledge and vast experience of the die-designer besides information about manufacturing resources, part geometry, delivery time and cost preferences, etc. Complexity of the die-design activity further increases in case of a multi-cavity die. Currently available die-design systems lack in the l...