Sinter Rotary Forging: Part One

Abstract:

Sinter rotary forging is one of the prominent sinter forming processes and uses pressed and sintered metal powder preforms as starting material. The sinter forming technique combines the advantages associated with two well-known techniques, namely powder metallurgy and conventional forming.

Sinter rotary forging is one of the prominent sinter forming processes and uses pressed and sintered metal powder preforms as starting material. The sinter forming technique combines the advantages associated with two well-known techniques, namely powder metallurgy and conventional forming.

During sinter rotary forging, sintered preforms are subjected to a combined rolling and pressing action between a flat bottom die platen and a swiveling upper die with a conical working face, instead of a direct pressing action between two flat platens. The cone axis of the upper die is inclined, so that the narrow indented contact sector with the preform is parallel to the lower platen. As the upper die rotates about the cone apex, the contact zone also rotates. At the same time, the platens are pressed toward each other, so that, the preform is progressively compressed by the rolling action.

This small conical contact area generated on the flat surface of the preform during indentation, which is further swept throughout the entire preform surface during rotary phase, characterizes this technique. The technique offers several advantages in comparison to conventional sinter forging technique and one such prominent one is appreciably low load requirement to carry out the deformation because of the relatively small area of instantaneous contact surface. This leads to high tooling life and requirement of low capacity presses resulting into reduced initial investment and maintenance cost.

Also, rotary motion substantially reduces the interfacial friction due to better metal flow in the radial direction, further reducing the deformation load. The sinter rotary forged components find applications in various industrial and commercial fields e.g. high power semiconductor, automotive, agriculture, sports, industrial automation, oil & gas etc.



Figure 1: Simple upsetting by rotary forging

Forming of simple rings by rotary forging of preforms made from metal powder by compacting and sintering is shown in Figure 2.



Figure 2: Forming of simple rings by rotary forging of preforms

As mentioned above, the rotary forging process not only has advantages such a small force, good surface quality and low installation investment, but also easily makes complete densification owing to the large shearing deformation.



Figure 3: Examples of finished gears


References

1. S. Singh, A. K. Jha, S. Kumar: Analysis of Rotary Forging of Sintered Preforms Part I: Indentation Phase, Tamkang Journal of Science and Engineering, Vol. 9, No 4, p. 313-324, 2006;

2. E.R.Leheup, J.R.Moon, P.M.Standring: Production of components by rotary forging of sintered preforms, Powder Metallurgy 1983, Vol.26, No3, p.129-135;

3. G-C Wang, G-Q Zhao, Y.Jia, Y,Yang: Densification laws and properties of sintered compacts in rotary forging process, Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China, Vol.10, No1, February 2000, Article ID: 1003-6326(2000)01-0084-04

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