Simulation of extrusion process of complicated aluminium profile and die trial
(1. Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metal Materials Science and Engineering of Ministry of Education,
Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacture for Vehicle Body, Hunan University,
Changsha 410082, China)
Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacture for Vehicle Body, Hunan University,
Changsha 410082, China)
Abstract: The arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian(ALE) adaptive remeshing technology and the HyperXtrude software of transient finite element simulations were used on analogue simulation of aluminium extrusion processing. The field distributions of strain rate, stress, temperature and velocity of metal flow were obtained. The results are basically consistent with the experiment, which indicates that this method may successfully predict the defects in the actual extrusion process.
Key words: transient finite element simulations; complicated aluminium profile; arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian(ALE) method; die trial