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Job Information:

•Allows you to specify model name and folder
•The unit system for the model can be selected. Currently only Metric system is available, but other unit systems will be made available.
•The units used for Geometry, Velocity, Temperature and Stress are exported as parameters in *.frg file.

job_info

 

Select Materials

•Material for the billet can be selected from the available workpiece material data base
•Material for the tool components can be selected from the available tool material database

forging_wizard_mat_data

•Once you select the materials for tool and workpiece, the properties of those materials are exported as data packets in *.grf file as shown below. In addition, these materials are assigned to the components accordingly.

Tool Default_Tool {

  Density = 2260

  SpecificHeat = 896

  XConductivity = 198

  YConductivity = 198

  ZConductivity = 198

  VolumetricHeatSource = 700

  YoungModulus = 2.00000000000E+10

  PoissonRatio = 3.50000000000E-01

}

Workpiece Default_Workpiece {

  ConstitutiveModel = "SineHypInv"

  Density = 2700

  SpecificHeat = 900

  Conductivity = 198

  CoeffOfThermalExpansion = 1.00000000000E-05

  VolumetricHeatSource = 0

  ReferenceTemperature = 700

  LiquidusTemperature = 927

  SolidusTemperature = 889

  YoungModulus = 4.00000000000E+10

  PoissonRatio = 3.50000000000E-01

  StressExponent = 5.38500000000E+00

  StrainRateOffset = 1.00000000000E-04

  ActivationEnergy = 141550

  ReciprocalStrainFactor = 5.91052000000E+09

  UniversalGasConstant = 8.31400000000E+00

  Alpha = 4.00000000000E-08

}

 

BEGIN MATASSIGN

  USE Default_Workpiece FOR Billet_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR LeftClamp_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR RightClamp_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR Tool1_Punch1_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR Tool1_Punch2_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR Tool1_Punch3_3D

  USE Default_Tool FOR Tool1_Punch4_3D

END

 

Billet Geometry

•You can specify the initial and final shape of the billet.
•You can specify the initial dimensions of the billet before the start of forging process.

forging_wizard_workpiece

 

Tool Components

In this step, you can specify tool set information.

At present radial forging with 4 punches and press forging with a punch and anvil are supported.  Once the tool set type is selected, for each tool component (punch/anvil), you can specify the geometry information such as width, height, length, orientation angle and face center coordinates.

All these toolset and tool component details are exported to a *.grf file as explained below.

Note:  You should verify that all punches that belong to one tool set have same width, length and height.

tool_comps

Name

Description

Die Face

Type of die face. Should be either “Flat” or “Curved”. Only “Flat” face dies are supported at present.

Is Die Moving

This parameter distinguishes whether a die is “Punch” or “Anvil”.

Die Width

Width of the die in transverse direction

Die Height

Height of the die

Die Length

Length of the die in billet orientation direction

Die Angle

Describes the radial orientation of the die with respect to billet

Die Center X, Y, Z

Coordinates of the Die face center. These are automatically computed given the die angle and billet initial diameter.

All the specified die parameters of each tool component in the tool set are exported as a DieData data packet in *.grf file. Sample data packet DieData is shown below.

•Here, DieData is the keyword to specify the data packet is a DieData type.

DieData Tool1_Punch1_Data {

DieType = "Punch"

DieFace = "Flat"

Width   = 300.0

Length  = 400.0

Center  = 183.85 183.85 0.0

Angle   = 45.0

DieElemSet = "Tool1_Punch1_3D"

}

 

•Tool1_Punch1_Data is the name of the die component “Tool1_Punch1” appended with the string “_Data”
•DieElemSet - represents the 3D component
•Similarly the *.grf file contains data packets for all the die components, Tool1_Punch2, Tool1_Punch3 and Tool1_Punch4.

The number of die components and names of the die components associated with this tool set are also exported as a ToolSet data packet.   In addition ToolSet data packet also contains the information about Clamp components that hold the workpiece during forging process. Samples of these data packets are shown below.

ToolSet  Tool1 {

NumDieComponents = 4

DieComponentNames    = "Tool1_Punch1_Data" "Tool1_Punch2_Data" "Tool1_Punch3_Data"  "Tool1_Punch4_Data"       NumClampComponents  = 2

ClampComponentNames = "LeftClampData" "RightClampData"

 }

Here, the keyword ToolSet indicates that the data packet is of ToolSet type and “Tool1” refers to  the name of the tool set.