Defects in Forgings
Defects in Forgings
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Mild steel
01 1300 800
Wrought iron
02 1275 900
06 500 350
DEFECTS IN FORGING
• Defective structure of metal; Reason – defective original metal.
• Presence of cold shuts or cracks at corners; Reason – improper
forging and faulty die design.
• Incomplete component; Reason – less metal used, faulty die design
and inadequate metal flow.
• Mismatched forging; Reason – die halves not properly aligned.
• Burnt and overheated metal; Reason – improper heating.
• Fiber flow lines or grain flow lines disconnected; Reason – very
rapid plastic flow of metal.
• Scale pits; Reason – formed by squeezing of scale into metal during
forging.
• Oversize components; Reason – worn out dies, incorrect dies.
Types of defects
(Samrat forging)
• Unfill
• Mismatch
• Cracks
• Double strokes
• Overheating
• Lapping
• Undersize
Quality measurements of
products.
CRACKS
• Causes:
Surface cracking can occur as a result of excessive working of the s/c at too low tempr.
• Remedial measures:
LAPPING
• Causes:
When metal flows past part of the die cavity that has already been filled or that is only partly filled becoz
the metal failed to fill in due to ssharp corner
Due to excessicve chilling
Due to high friction.
Too small die radius .
• Remedial measures:
UNFILL
• Causes:
• Remedial measures:
Cracking at flash
• Causes:
When the flash is thin.
• Remedial measures:
Increase the flash thickness of the metal
By relocating the flash to a less critical region of the forging.
PITTING
• Causes:
• Remedial measures:
Out comes of the project
• Understand the whole process of forging.
• Comes to understand various defects related to forging
process.
• Tried to find the possible causes of defects at samrat forging.
• Tried to find out the possible remidial measures.