An Experiment in Material Forming Processes may be expensive and time consuming when dealing with large production equipment. It may be advantageous to conduct a preliminary series of experiments in which the trial work piece material is simulated with a model material such as plasticine, wax, lead or clay, which have low value of flow stresses compared with metals and as such low cost tooling can be used in the experiments. Strict similarity between the real and model experiments are very difficult to achieve but useful results can be obtained if processing and environmental conditions like friction, temperature, and strain rate are similar. Experimental studies of material forming processes require measurement of the forming loads and deformations, determining regions of heavy deformation and so on at different processing/ tribological conditions. Most studies of the deformation in forming operations make use of grid networks in rectangular or polar co-ordinate system depending upon the situation. The direction of flow can be determined from the grain distortion. In order to investigate into different aspect of material forming processes with reasonable accuracy and alignment a lean and competitive design for multifunctional experimental setup has been investigated and developed. The experiments which can be conducted, on this designed setup, to investigate into different aspect of material forming processes includes Forward Extrusion, Forging (Open Die and Closed Die), Deep Drawing, Bulging of Tubes, etc.
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