Abstract
The flow of a rate sensitive material in a forming process in general and an extrusion process in particular has been analysed by using a constitutive equation in the form where such a material is treated as a viscous, non-Newtonian incompressible fluid flow. The discretized form of the flow equation is obtained using the principle of virtual work and the finite element technique. Velocities and pressures are used as primary variables in the formulation. The method which is presently applied to the axisymmetric steady state extrusion of rate sensitive materials can readily be extended to unsteady problems. The two rate-sensitive materials choosen are an aluminium having a definite yield stress and a Pb-Sn eutectic alloy having no detectable yield limit. The results of the present analysis are compared with available experimental values or with that obtained by other methods and in general good agreement is found to exist.
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