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Materials, volume 17, issue 9, pages 2065

Investigation of the Penetration Performance of the Radial Forging Process for Wrought Aluminium Alloy

Yongfei Wang 1, 2, 3
Linhua Xiong 1, 3
Dongxiao Feng 2
Shengdun Zhao 1, 2, 3
Yi Guo 4
2
 
National Key Laboratory of Metal Forming Technology and Heavy Equipment, Xi’an 710049, China
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Xi’an Key Laboratory of Intelligent Equipment and Control, Xi’an 710049, China
Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2024-04-27
Journal: Materials
scimago Q2
SJR0.565
CiteScore5.8
Impact factor3.1
ISSN19961944
PubMed ID:  38730871
Abstract

With the wide application potential of wrought aluminium alloy in aerospace, automobile and electronic products, high-quality aluminium bars prepared by the radial forging (RF) process have received extensive attention. Penetration performance refers to the depth of radial plastic deformation of forgings, which is the key factor in determining the quality of forging. In this work, the penetration performance of the radial forging process for 6063 wrought aluminium bars is investigated by simulation using FORGE software. The minimum reduction amount of the hammer is calculated based on the forging penetration theory of forging. The influence of process parameters including forging ratio (FR) and billet temperature on the effective stress and hammer load in the RF process are investigated. The RF-deformed billet is then produced with the optimal process parameters obtained from the simulation results. The average grain size of aluminium alloy semi-solid spherical material is used to evaluate the forging penetration. Simulation results showed that the effective strain at the edge and the centre of the RF-deformed billet gradually increases, but the increasing speed of the effective strain at the edge becomes low. The hammer load first decreases quickly and then gradually maintains stability by increasing the FR. It is found that low billet temperature and high FR should be selected as appropriate process parameters under the allowable tonnage range of RF equipment. Under an isothermal temperature of 630 °C and a sustaining time of 10 min, the difference in the average grain dimension between the edge and the centre positions of the starting extruded blank is 186.43 μm, while the difference in the average grain dimension between the edge and the centre positions of the RF-deformed blank is 15.09 μm. The improvement ratio of penetration performance for the RF-deformed blank is obtained as 91.19%.

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