Internal die cooling during forging can reduce thermal loads, counteracting surface softening, plastic deformation and abrasive wear. Additive manufacturing has great potential for producing complex geometries of the internal channels. In this study, hybrid dies were developed combining conventional processes laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) achieving conformal A characterisation used hot-work t...

Electro Discharge Machining (EDM) is a very efficient machining process widely used in manufacturing components of complicated geometry. Based on its nature, i.e. material removal by electric discharge, the process induces thermal stresses that in turn result in generation of wide spread micro-cracks on the surface of the machined part. In this paper the influence of EDM characteristic paramete...

The purpose of this study is to develop a forging process of automotive parts that satisfies the deformation characteristics. The analyses of temperature variation and deformation behavior of the material are important to obtain the optimal forging products. The hot compression test was carried out to know formability at high temperature. In order to define the optimum forging conditions includ...

Geometrical error due to twist springback is one of major defects found in the near net or net shape part. It becomes more critical for complex part such as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) propeller blade. In this study, twist springback was quantified by comparing the blade and the die profiles obtained from commercial optical technique namely Alicona system. The results show a differen...

The purpose of this research is to achieve the optimal parameters for producing forged aluminium alloy 7075 aircraft door bracket by using finite element modelling (FEM) with commercial DEFORM-3D V6.1 and physical simulations with plasticine and Plexiglas dies. Also, forging speed has been examined as the main factor for controlling to produce a part without any defects. The results of Physical...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the forging of bevel gears based on conventional forging method with material number 1.7131 with finite element method by means of SUPER FORGE software and to compare it with experimental cold orbital forging results.After doing simulation of conventional forging and obtaining press tonnage due to orbital forging method with DEFORM software, orbital fo...

A process is described which involves infiltration of aluminum nitrate into partially sintered (porous) zircon bodies. Infiltration kinetics were studied using infiltration curves with two distinct regions. The final infiltrated samples were sintered at 1600 °C for 2 h and yielded specimens containing the tetragonal zirconia.The experimental results show that in spite of the similar porosity of...

The increasing demand for feature content of portable electronic products drives requirements for smaller volume and lower cost device packaging. This has, in turn, led to the packaging industry’s interest in stacked chip technology, especially for memory applications. The growth of stacked chip package technology drove development of specific die adhesives that combine low cost with controlled...