Development, Modelling and Analysis of the new Combined Bottomless Sleeve Extrusion Process / Opracowanie, Modelowanie I Analiza Parametrów Nowego Procesu Złozonego Wyciskania Tulei Bez Dna

Abstract

An intensive industry development assuring high production quality should take place with the rational use of production machinery and equipment, low material and energy consumption per production unit, and at the maximum efficiency of processes. High quality of relatively cheap of semi-finished and finished products is achieved as a result of using non-waste manufacturing methods, which include e.g. the rolling, drawing and extrusion processes. The effective enhancement of production quality may be achieved by employing contemporary modelling and optimization methods in the design of new technological processes. In plastic working processes, during the design and optimization of new technologies, numerical modelling plays a crucial role. It brings about considerable time and material savings. It enables the determination of the basic parameters of processes and prediction of any possible gains or losses associated with the implementation of new technological solutions. The article reports the results of numerical modelling studies on the processes of combined extrusion of sleeves, where solutions were implemented, which allowed bottomless sleeves to be manufactured by these methods, without having to use the operation of mechanical cutting off the bottom formed after the extrusion process. In one of the cases, by using working tools of the appropriate design, a process of non-waste extrusion of a through sleeves was even achieved. The basic advantage of the proposed solutions is the single-operation nature of processes with a simultaneous reduction of the energy-force parameters compared to the traditional methods of manufacturing these types of products.