material flow

The aim of this study, is study on the effects of flash gutter geometry on the material flow, predict of defect formation and forging process parameters in cold forging. For this purpose, effects of three flash geometry with trapezoidal, oval and square shapes were investigated on the simple frustum part. The effect of flash gutter geometry simulated using ABAQUS finite element software and then form with the optimized flash gutter was manufactured and forging process to verify the simulation results on a piece of AA3003aluminum alloy, was carried out. The results showed that trapezoidal flash gutter had more appropriate conditions for material flow than other cases. According to the simulation results, the maximum plastic strain was formed around the flash area and its value was maximum in the die with trapezoidal flash gutter, which was due to the greater flow of the material in the trapezoidal flash gutter geometry. According to the simulation results prediction, the distribution and exerted applied pressure to produce the final part on die with square flash gutter was more than others. The maximum applied pressure was on the flash area of die, which was the largest for the square flash gutter, and had the smallest amount of trapezoidal flash gutter geometry.

In this study, the effects of linear and rotational speed of the friction stir welding tool was investigated on the heat generation and distribution at surface and inside of workpiece, material flow and geometry of the welding area of poly methyl methacrylate (PMMA) workpiece. The commercial CFD Fluent 6.4 software was used to simulation of the process with computational fluid dynamic technique. To increase the accuracy of simulation, weld area was modeled as a non-Newtonian fluid with pseudo melt behavior around tool pin. The results of the simulation showed at the higher the proportion of rotational speed to linear speed, the material flow in front of the tool and the welding region became bigger. The maximum temperature and turbulence generated heat and material flow were observed at the advancing side. The simulation results were showed acceptable agreement with experimental results. Based on the studied parameters, the maximum generated heat was of 115° C, the maximum material velocity was 0.24 m/s around tool shoulder and maximum pressure on the workpiece was predicted 9 MPa.

In this research, the friction-stir welding (FSW) process was used for butt joining of AA2024-T351 and AA6061-T6 dissimilar alloys. Welding was carried out using a tool with frustum of pyramid pin. The effects of rotational and linear speeds of the tool on microstructure, macrostructure, and mechanical properties of joints were examined. The AA2024 alloy was located in the advancing side due to higher flow stress at higher temperature than the AA6061 alloy, which was located in the retreating side. Macro analysis showed that with a rotational to linear speed ratio of higher than 31.25 revolutions per millimeter the transverse joint section demonstrated tunnel hole defect. With an increase in heat input material flow on different depth levels of joint became more homogenous and the AA2024 alloy’s amount in the stir zone increased. Moreover, with rotational to linear speed ratio of higher than 40 revolutions per millimeter, the effect of deformation rate was dominant, whereas with lower ratios the effect of temperature on grain size in the stir zone was dominant. Application of offset to the tool during welding in the retreating side led to improvement of flow of materials in the stir zone and an increase in friction stir joint strength.

In this article, effects of Friction stir welding tool rotational and traverse speeds were studied on the temperature distribution, material flow and formation of defects in the welding zone. Computational fluid dynamics method was used to simulate the process with commercial CFD Fluent 6.4 package. To enhance the accuracy of simulation in this Study, the welding line that is located between two workpieces, defined with pseudo melt behavior around the FSW pin tool. Simulation results showed that with increase of FSW tool rotational speed to linear speed, the material flow in front of tool became more and dimensions of the stir zone will be bigger. The calculation result also shows that the maximum temperature and stir of the material was occurred on the advancing side. The computed results showed that with incompetent heat generation, insufficient material flow caused around the pin and defects formed in weld root. The computed results were in good agreement with the experimental results of other researchers. Based on the welding parameters that used in this simulation, the maximum strain rate is predicted between -4(S-1) to +4(S-1) in the stir zone.