This paper deals with the development of an intelligent CAD system for specifying the operation sequence in cold forging. Cold forging technology is facing with various new design requirements. Therefore, it is very important to develop a decision method for the operation sequence, with comparatively high adaptability to the new requirements. An intelligent CAD system which is the uncertain factors in human knowledge into consideration by applying fuzzy theory is established. Various actual design data about were organized, and these organized data were applied to the system as the case base. The system automatically generates the design data of operation sequence such as the forming method and the geometric data of products in each operation stage by the reasoning method applied the fuzzy pattern matching. By comparing the design results in the above system with the actual design data of a human expert, this paper presents that our method is useful for practical application.

Large-scale low-alloy steel shafts, used in the manufacture of steam turbine, are produced by ingot making, forging and heat treatemtn processes. The numerical analysis techniques are introduced to analyze and design the working conditions in each process. The solidification of a steel ingot is studied through the finite element method. The open die press forging and quenching process are simulated by viscoplastic and elastic-plastic finite element method, respectively. Thus numerical analysis techniques are very useful tools to study favorable working conditions for better and more desirable product quality.

TR 단조공법은 기존의 프레스에 특수장치를 장착하여 프레스의 수직힘과 수평함을 동시에 갖도록 하여 일체형의 크랭크샤프트를 제작하는 공법으로, 연속입자흐름의 크랭크쓰 로우를 제작할 수 있기 때문에 보다 우수한 특성의 크랭크샤프트를 제작할 수 있다. TR 단 조공법을 이용한 크랭크샤프트의 제작은 하나의 소재로 단조하여 제작하기 때문에 기존과는 다른 작업공법 및 전용장비가 필요하나 국내에서는 이러한 공법이나 설비의 부재로 인해 생 산되지 못한 제품이었다. 본 개발에서는 중형엔진용 크랭크샤프트의 국산화를 실현한 측면 에서 TR 단조공법 및 장치에 대한 소개와 본 단조공법을 적용하여 제작된 크랭크샤프트의 제반 특성평가를 수행하여 균일한 물성 및 연속입자흐름에 따른 피로강도의 향상 여부를 확 인하였다.

Rotary forging process has many advantages such as compacting of machine, low price of facilities and good quality of products. The last presented was a technical report about rotary forging press in the 100-ton class, which has the only orbital motion limited to the forming of axisymmetric parts. In this paper, the newly developed rotary forging press is introduced. The maximum capacity of forming load is 280 ton and five locking motion, this is, orbital, straight pivot, spiral and two kinds of clover can be available. This machine consists of transmission, double eccentric bush, rocking shaft, die set and hydraulic unit. Especially, the supports of rocking shaft and double eccentric bush are so crucial that hydrostatic bearings are adopted. Finally, it is expected that the technical know-how obtained in this research can be applied to the manufacturing of the another machine with large capacity.

Press accidents are one of the most popular industrial accidents. Two factors are considered to lead to press accidents, one is human, the other press machine itself. Accident itself is analyzed and concluded to be due to incomplete interaction between press and human. A press design considering safety as a methodology is introduced to reduce the industrial accidents by press machine, that is micro-inching locking system.

The forging limit curves of sintered porous metals have been calculated, in terms of the two principal strains, by the Lee-Kuhn initial imperfection model. The various yield functions for porous metal have been applied to the initial imperfection model. When the value of initial imperfection ratio equals the value of initial relative density of the sintered porous metals, the calculation values are in good agreement with the measured data. The slopes of the forging limit curves are about 0.5 as in the case of non-porous metals.

Forged aluminum lower arm has been developed to provide weight reduction of suspension parts. It was utilized FEM analysis in design of parts. Prototype parts were producted to two shape & different forging condition. Difference of forging condition was manufacturing process of stock, forging press, forging die, heat treatment condition. As a result, weight reduction of 44%, 38% was achived. Strength and fatigue endurance of forged aluminum lower arm was excellent.

Age hardenable aluminum alloys show high specific strength, good thermal and electrical conductivity as well as lightness, and are typical aircraft materials. High fatigue strength and good resistancy against stress corrosion cracking are also important for aircraft aluminum alloys. Al alloy 7050 has been developed to meet the above mentioned requirements and the use of this alloy as forged aircraft part becomes more important. However, forged 7050 parts showed undersirable structures such as severe local grain coarsening in surface area and unproper metal flow that is degrading mechanical properties. In this paper, microstructural aspects of die forging in the Al alloy 7050 are investigated. Also suggested are the optimal forging conditions for microstructural control of Al alloy 7050.

The relationship between plastic deformation and crystal grain change in warm forging processes of SM100 carbon steel is studied. If the carbon steel is deformed in warm forging temperature (about recrystallization range), the crystal grain and cementite of the internal part are changed, so material properties are changed. Some experimental values, such as the elliptic degree of cementite, the grain size of cementitie and ferrite grain size, are investigated. When the plastic deformation proceeds, the elliptic degree of cementite becomes large, the grain size of cementite particle is small, and the size of ferrite grain appears fine by recrystallization. The elliptic degree of cementite has a considerable effect on formability. The distribution of effective strain in the forging is calculated by the rigid visco-plastic FEM analysis. The effective strain distribution obtained from the FEM simulation is compared with the experimental result. At effective strain 0.3 dynamic recovery and dynamic recrystallization begin, over 2.5 the organization of material has better quality that is suitable for the following cold forming.

Cold Forging has advantage in high accuracy and short working time. However large-skzed and complicated parts are difficult to process with cold forging. Thus large-sized and complicated parts have been processed with two pieces, or combind forging that is hot forging in addition to cold sizing. Recently, large-sized and complicated parts can be manufactured with cold forging alone by advanced cold forging technology using the long-stroke press. In this paper, cold forging technology of large-sized and complicated parts are investigated, including tripod slide housing for constant velocity joint and drive shaft for starter.

진합정공 주식회사는 다단 성형기를 사용하여 자동차 부품이나 건축재 등을 냉간 단조로 생산하는 중소기업으로서, 수입에 의존하고 있는 각종 단조품들의 국산화와 고부가 가치의 정밀 단조품 생산을 위해 기술개발에 많은 노력을 기울이고 있는 회사이다. 본 논문 에서는 진합정공의 냉간단조 생산 기술을 예비처리 과정과 냉간단조법, 단조소재, 단조 금 형으로 나누어 개략적으로 소개함으로써 중소기업형인 국내 단조 기업의 생산 기술과 생산 현황을 파악하고자 하였다. 이러한 시도를 통하여 국내 단조 기술의 수준을 파악할 수 있을 것이며, 기술 개발을 위한 산학협동의 기반을 마련할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

Helical gears are machined from blanks, which are usually prepared by forging cylindrical billets at high temperatures through buster, blocker and finisher processes. As dimensions of the blank are closer to those of the machined part, machining cost can be more reduced. Therefore, there are a lot of efforts being made to optimize the forging processes in order to produce near-net shaped blanks. In the present investigation, a rigid viscoplastic finite element technique was used to analyze a helical gear blank hot forging processes and deformation, strain and temperature distributions, forging load variations during forging were obtained. In the paper, it is discussed how these results can be utilized to optimize die design, billet dimensions and press usage.

In this paper, several application examples of a forging simulator POSFORM were introduced with some forged parts for verification purpose, found in cold or hot forging companies. the forging simulator was also introduced in brief. The simulated results and the actually forged ones were compared in shape or metal flow. It has been shown that the design approach based on the forging simulator is most efficient in reducing design tryouts and development cost and accumulating design experience and technology effectively.