Micro-alloyed steel components are used in automotive industry for the necessity to make the manufacturing process cycles shorter when compared to conventional steel by eliminating heat treatment cycles, so an important saving of costs and energy can be reached by reducing the number of operations. Microalloying elements like vanadium, niobium or titanium have been added to medium carbon steels...

To realize large wind power plants in an economically feasible way, it is necessary to identify potential for lightweight design of the generator hollow-shafts, which are commonly produced by casting. The weight of these shafts can significantly be reduced by producing them by open-die forging, since the forming of the material leads to a higher strength, which allows to reduce the wall thickne...

The paper reports an investigation into the forging of solid powder circular disc with large slenderness ratio, between two flat dies. The deformation pattern during the operation is influenced by many factors, which interact with each other in a complex manner. The decisive factors are the interfacial conditions, initial relative density of the preform and the geometry of the preform. An attem...

Forging is a cost-effective way to produce net-shape or nearnet-shape components. Forged components are used throughout the manufacturing sector in many different applications. Owing to the lack of an accurate process model, modern forging operations still largely rely on operator skills and experience. The expertise of skilled operators can help to develop a forging process model. However, the...

Structurally porous metal sandwich panels consisting of dense face sheets and porous cores of controlled relative density can be manufactured by trapping inert gas during hot isostatic pressing and modifying its distribution via subsequent thermomechanical forming. A plane-strain solution for analyzing the open-die forging of such a plastically compressible sandwich panel is developed. An effec...

Abstract Forgings are produced in several process steps, the so-called forging sequence. The design of efficient sequences is a very complex and iterative development process. In order to automate this reduce time, method presented here, which automatically generates multi-stage for different geometries on basis component geometry (STL file). was developed closed die forging. individual modules...

The finite element method plays an extremely important role in forging process design as it provides a valid means to quantify forging errors and thereby govern die shape modification to improve the dimensional accuracy of the component. However, this dependency on process simulation could raise significant problems and present a major drawback if the finite element simulation results were inac...

A new near-net forging procedure of titanium and alloys was proposed by using a carbon-supersaturated punch die. Due to the in situ formation carbon-based tribofilm on contact interface between dies work materials, low frictional state sustained through process even high reduction thickness. The hardening suppressed during forging; an additional annealing unnecessary whole forging. Pure ?-phase...