Press Forging Forming of the Round-Fin on Heat Sink

Abstract

Press forging forming is a combined extrusion process for forming round-fin on heat sink on thick metal sheets. A series of simulations on the round-fin forming using the program DEFORM were carried out. The blank thickness and friction coefficient on the formation of round-fin were studied. The results show that the blank thickness is very good for the round-fin formation, and the thicker the blank is, the better the round-fin can be formed; and also when both the punch-blank interface and the die-blank interface have the same value of friction factor, the larger value of friction factor is in favor of round-fin forming, the further investigation reveals that the friction at the punch-blank interface has more significant effect on preventing the initiation of flow-through compared with the friction at the die-blank interface, which implies that the punch-blank interface has more significant effect on the material flow in the formation of round-fin.