Analysis of forging limit for sintered porous metals

Abstract

Forging of sintered porous metals has been developed as a method for producing machine parts with good mechanical properties. To extend this manufacturing method to a wide range of applications, it will be helpful to have an understanding of the deformation, density change and fracture of sintered porous metals during forging. Especially, in order to avoid the possibility of surface fracture in forging of porous metals, it is necessary to know the forging limits of sintered porous metals. The purpose of this work is to calculate the forging limit curves of sintered porous metals using the various yield functions for porous metals.