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A Fully Coupled Thermomechanical Damage Analysis of Hot Closed Die Forging Using Finite Element Modeling

Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance volume 29, pages 8236–8246 (2020)Cite this article

Abstract

Advanced simulations are needed in the industry nowadays for reliable design of various machine parts. A complex computation is presented here to describe the whole manufacturing process, apart from the machining, of forged spur gear for a reverse transmission from a car gearbox. A coupled thermomechanical analysis was realized through the explicit finite element method, while the stress–strain analysis was conducted in all phases of the production with time- and temperature-dependent constitutive law. The influence of process parameters was assessed, and the magnitudes of forging load were compared for selected dimensions of intermediate product (blank) and its initial temperature (preheating). The numerical simulation was finished with the flash trimming along the circumference, so the temperature-dependent ductile failure criterion proposed by Johnson and Cook was accounted for as well.

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This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation under contract No. 19-20802S “A coupled real-time thermomechanical solidification model of steel for crack prediction.” The authors would also like to thank professor Josef Štětina and associate professor Michal Pohanka, both with the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Brno University of Technology, for providing us with the material data for the considered carbon steel.

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    Petr Kubík, Jindřich Petruška & František Šebek

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Nytra, M., Kubík, P., Petruška, J. et al. A Fully Coupled Thermomechanical Damage Analysis of Hot Closed Die Forging Using Finite Element Modeling. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 29, 8236–8246 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-020-05252-4

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Keywords

  • bulk formability
  • computational materials design
  • failure analysis
  • forging
  • modeling and simulation
  • thermal analysis