Chapter IX: Bulk Forming Forging 1Content: Forging • Introduction • Examples of Application • Overview to Basic Forging Processes • Open-Die Forging • Forging Machine Tools • Closed-Die
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Content:
Forging
• Introduction
• Examples of Application
• Overview to Basic Forging
Processes
• Open-Die Forging
• Forging Machine Tools
• Closed-Die Forging
• Forging Temperature
• Forging Defects
• Forging Dies
• Current Trends
Description of Forging
Advantages of Forging Process:
• High material utilization
• High production rates
• High process stability
• High recyclability of products
Forging consists of a group of manufacturing processes which are
mainly deformation processes The two other types of processes are
separating (parting) and joining processes.
In order to reduce stresses and forces and to increase formability,
forging is usually carried out after heating to a temperature range at
which recovery and recrystallization occurs Hence the workpieces after
forging do not show a permanent work hardening.
Advantages of Forged Products:
• Improved grain structure
• Higher fatigue strength & ductility
• Better surface quality than in casting
• Beneficial grain flow (fibers)
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Material Fibers (Grain Flow)
Forging Industry Association
The beneficial grain flow in forged parts leads to a longer
fatigue life & higher ductility than machined or casted parts
ASM Handbook
Forging Production
2.368.000
35.000
1.360.000
9.600.000
0 3.000.000
6.000.000
9.000.000
12.000.000
Turkey (1989)
Germany (1999)
Europe (1998)
World (1998)
Tekkaya/Hirschvogel
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Examples of Application:
Various Parts
IDS
Examples of Application:
Front Axle of a Truck
Daimler Benz AG
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Examples of Application:
Automobile Front
Wheel Suspension
Examples of Application: Truck Gear Box
Daimler Benz AG
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Examples of Application: Vehicle Power Shaft
Gelenkwellenbau Gmbh
Examples of Application:
Aircraft Landing Gear Structure
Airbus Industrie
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Basic Forging Processes
Open-Die Forging
Closed-Die Forging
Hot Forging
Warm Forging Cold Forging
Precision Forging Near-Net-Shape-Forging Net-Shape Forging
Isothermal Forging
Hot versus Cold Forging
Hot Forging
• Production of discrete parts
• Greater technical and
economical importance
• Low stresses, no/low
work-hardening, homogenized
grain structure
• High formability
• Medium to low accuracy
• Scale formation
• Forging temperatures:
– Steel: > 1000oC (up to 1150 oC)
– Al-Alloys: 360oC-520oC
– Cu-Alloys: 700oC-800oC
Cold Forging
• Production of discrete parts
• Processes covered: extrusion
forging, upsetting, coining
• High stresses, strain
hardening, high die loads
• Limited formability
• Near-net shape or net shape
• High surface quality
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Open-Die versus Closed-Die Forging
Open-Die Forging
• Aim: To achieve a convenient
mass distribution or shape for the
successive operations
(machining or closed-die forging)
• Simple tools, whose geometry do
not depend on the product
geometry
Closed-Die Forging
• Aim: Achieve best possible dimensional and shape accuracy
of the product
• Tools whose geometry is product dependent
Open Die Forging
Cogging
Video
Upsetting Heading (with no given form)
Spreading Radial Forging (with no given form)
Kalpakjian
Geiger
Lange
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Basic Processes of Open-Die Forging and
Achievable Cross-Section Changes
• Cogging (material displacement)
• Spreading (material displacement)
• Upsetting, heading (material concentration)
Complete Plastification During Cogging
Lange
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Closed Die Forging (1)
Impression Die Forging
Video
Closed Die Forging (no flash) Coining
Heading
Video
Kalpakjian
Closed Die Forging (2)
Roll-Forging
Skew-Roll-Forging
Upsetting in a Die
Kalpakjian
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Closed
Die
Forging
(3)
Radial Forging (Swaging)
Kalpakjian
Terminology for Impression Die
Forging
Kalpakjian
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Material Flow in Closed-Die Forging
Geiger/Lange
Lange
Work W
Stroke
s
plastic region rigid region
workpiece
dc
r z
s
r
s
r
r
s
f sz,f
sz,f
Mechanics of Closed-Die Forging
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Effect of Flash Dimesions
Die Land - Ratio b/s
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
szmax
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
5500
5000
4500
4000
3500
3000
2500
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
s zmax
Dm
W
F
80 mm
Vieregge
Stress and Force Computation in
Impression Die Forging: Slab Method
In the flash land the axial stress is given according to the slab
method by Siebel as:
max
1 2
b s
= − ⋅ + ⋅ ⋅
Simple method to estimate the forging load:
max max
P z
where, the total projection area A p is given by:
P dc F
A : Projection area of die cavity, A : Projection area of flash
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s plastic region
rigid region rigid region
d D
Stress and Force Computation in Impression
Die Forging: Upper Bound Method
• The material within the die cavity does not
plastify anymore as the maximum force is
recorded, since all free places are filled already
• The material flow happens only in the material
slab of thickness s, i.e the flash thickness The
shape of the die cavity is therefore immaterial
Assumptions for die with steep and deep cavities:
f
F
s s
⋅
max
f
F
(v Mises)
(Tresca)
0.3 < µ < 0.5 (0.577)
Lange
Typical Hot Flow Curves for Ck45
0
100
200
300
400
Equivalent plastic strain
1
40 s
ε & = −
1
8 s− 1
1.6 s− 1
40 s− 1
8 s− 1
1.6 s−
T = 1000 o C
1.6 s−
MSC/AutoForge
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Forging Press Characteristics
Lange
Forging Presses (1)
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Forging Presses (2)
Knuckle Joint
Gravity Drop Hammer
Kalpakjian
Kalpakjian
Example for Forging Sequences
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Examples of Forged Parts
Courtesy Kanca
Closed-Die Forging without Flash:
Example
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Closed-Die Forging without Flash:
Force-Displacement Diagram
Punch Stroke in mm
Upsetting
Corner Filling
Johne
Closed-Die Forging without Flash:
Material Flow
Punch
Die
unfilled corner plastic zone
sticking zone Workpiece
Lange
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Forging Temperature
• Lower Temperature: Significantly larger than the
recyrstallization temperature
• Upper Temperature: As large as possible, but if too
large:
– Oxidation or melting of impurities at the grain boundaries
– Excessive grain grow (overheating)
– Increased scale formation and decarburization
– Tendency of fracture on the blank surface
• Workpiece temperature is neither in time nor in space constant:
– Heat losses due to radiation and conduction
– Heat gain by friction and forming work
Forging Defects
Kalpakjian
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Forging Dies: Failure
Kannappan
Wear (abrasion) Thermal fatigue Mechanical fatigue Plastic deformation
Forging Dies: Design
• Positioning the forging stages
• Design of die land and flash gutter
• Design of the die cavity
– Design for material flow and die layout
– Design for dimensional accuracy
– Design for ease of machining
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Current Trends
• Thixo-Forging:
– Combination of casting and forming
– Thixotropic state: both liquid and solid
states co-exist
– Materials: basically aluminum and
magnesium alloys
– Advantages:
• Low forging loads
• Complicated shapes can be forged in
one stage
• Near-net forming (as compared to
casting)
• Large wall thickness differences
possible
– Disadvantages:
• Very tight temperature window
• Advance tool technology necessary
• Not all materials can be thixoforged
• Precision Forging of
Gears
– Precision forging: Forging with higher precision than described in the standards – Higher tool costs are compensated by saving post-machining costs
Computer Aided Forging
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