A study on optimal design for CONFORM process

摘要

In this paper, we investigated the effects of several significant process parameters on the processcharacteristics in the CONFORM process, such as material flow, defect occurrence, temperature andeffective strain distributions, using DEFORM commercial FEM code. Since there are manyparameters governing the process, it is not so easy to obtain an optimal combination of processparameters. Therefore, here, according to the parametric investigation of general forming methods,we carried out numerous numerical simulations and suggest a qualitative guide for the optimalCONFORM process.