March 10, 2017, tallinn the advantage of using an integrated. Extrusion qform simulation of hollow profile extrusion. Software products developed and licensed in the past. Banerjee carried out the finite element analysis by using ansys ls dyna. Qform forging analysis software cold forming process. Qform simulation results of thinwalled aluminium profiles extrusion are shown in this video. Altair hyperxtrude is a solution adaptive hpfinite element analysis program for modeling complex fluid flow and heat transfer problems. Due to nonuniform material flow the profile that leaves the orifice may bend, twist or buckle. Hydrostatic extrusion the billet is smaller in diameter that the chamber, which is filled with a fluid and the pressure, is transmitted to the billet by a ram. The simulation model will be prepared and analyzed.
Epics is the worlds most popular extrusion software system. Courtyard office park, 7055 engle road, suite 601, cleveland, ohio 44. Epics is used by over half of the extruder members of the aluminum extruders council. Qform extrusion integrates all the features required for analysis and optimization of the most complicated extrusion processes. International scientific sciences aluminum profile. This makes it simple for you to integrate 8020 products into existing designs. Epics is installed in 15 countries around the world. Alignex offers simulation software from solidworks and altair to test your designs in realworld conditions and make decisions to improve quality. Modeling and simulation for aluminium profile extrusion. Epics helps more than 15,000 people a day at over 100 aluminium extrusion plants around the world. Which simulation software is required for an extrusion. The paper presents the experience of aluminium profile extrusion simulation using qformextrusion program. The entire simulation environment has been upgraded to address a wide. Forming and machining of 2xxx, 5xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series of aluminium alloys 44 hydraulic forging, impact extrusion and drawing presses up to 3000 tons.
Extrusionflow enables the user to perform fast 3d simulations. Altair inspire extrude metal formerly solidthinking click2extrude metal software has been designed with its end users in mind. Choose from a variety of software to streamline your. For the first time user, following the manual for forging module, setting up and solving a simple problem will be over in. Is it possible to save a downloaded extrusion profile and use. Simulation of extrusion process of complicated aluminium. The software can be used for the evaluation of the existing equipment and also for design and optimization of new equipment. It covers the essential needs in metal forming simulation for large and small forging companies as well as research and educational establishments. Simulation helps in predicting the information such as rate of deformation, load and temperature required for successful extrusion.
As a new user of solidworks i am trying to work out how to design using aluminium extrusion profiles as a weldment profile. Altair engineering inc, a troy, michbased engineering, consulting and highperformance computing technologies company, recently introduced a new simulation software tool hyperxtrudeprocess that it claims removes the guesswork from estimating the costs of extruding aluminium products, as well as allowing aluminium to reap significant savings in both materials and time. The numerical simulation of extrusion process for complex hollow magnesium doorframe is carried out using hyperxtrude software. Extrusionpower software solution suite for the aluminium extrusion industry has four main functionality areas, design extrumat, manufacturing extrusioncam. Simulation software benefits extrusion process altair. Compuplast vel is the most comprehensive, cost effective and easyto use simulation software available for the extrusion industry professionals. Modeling and simulation of aluminum 1100 alloy in an. It is used for simulation of solid, semihollow and hollow profiles as. You see, extrusion simulation software like click2extrude 2017 is used to help metal and polymer. Vel will give users the ability to experiment on their process without the risk of damaging their equipment or wasting material and valuable production time. Extrusionflow, simulation software for the aluminium. Hyperxtrude, the ultimate fea tool for extrusion process.
Industry leading hyperxtrude is rebranded as solidthinking click2extrude in a new environment making metal and polymer extrusion. Fvm simulation of the hot extrusion process the aluminium 6061 t6 billet diameter of this study in 5 inch and will be heated up to 480 degree c. Altair inspire extrude metal is an easytolearn tool that enables simulation to be used by any engineer or designer to increase their understanding of how profile features and process variables interact for any particular metal alloy. Compuplast virtual extrusion laboratory vel is the world leading cae product for the polymer extrusion industry. Aluminium profile extrusion simulation in qform youtube. Now core polyflow capabilities are also included in ansys aim, the easytouse simulation environment designed for all engineers. Compuplast vel is the most comprehensive, cost effective and easytouse simulation software available for the extrusion industry professionals. Hyperxtrudeprocess is a computeraided engineering tool specially designed to help aluminium extrusion plants determine the optimum processing. The virtual experiments will ultimately save time and money by helping to minimize the number of physical. Extrusion processes allow production of longlength profiles with very complicated shapes with profile wall thickness up to 0,5. You can use aims guided workflows to model the deformation of molten. Get a deeper view of your design performance with an extensive simulation solution.
Altair inspire extrude metal is an easytolearn tool that enables simulation to be used by any engineer or designer to increase their understanding of how profile features and process variables interact for any. Aluminium extrusion toolsequipment facebook 37 photos. An extrusion simulation of an aluminum profile by porthole. Which simulation software is required for an extrusion process. Cad cam simulation seminar for aluminium extrusion. Aluminium extrusion simulation solutions posts facebook. Following the end of the simulation process, referent measurements like billet temperature, extrusion velocity, isothermal exchange of extrusion and. Following the end of the simulation process, referent measurements like billet temperature, extrusion. In this training manual you will learn the step by step process used in inspire extrude in order to run a successful extrusion simulation. We handle here advanced extrusion simulation software solutions for analysis and optimization of the aluminium extrusion process.
We cover here all aluminium extrusion related subjects, from 3d cad to manufacturing, from simulation to special technologies and also breaking news. Aluminium extrusion simulation solutions home facebook. The manual will cover an overview, features and all the basic tools. Qform is a professional engineering software used for simulation, analysis and optimization of metal forming processes providing excellent reliability. Exrusionpower is the worlds only integrated product suite for aluminium extrusion industry, which covers all the three main engineering 3d software disciplines, cad, cam and. Before extrusion starts, the values of the process. Extrusionpower integrated cad, cam, simulation software.
The program features parametric representation of the bearing geometry and stateoftheart automatic meshing algorithms. Qform simulation results of thinwalled aluminium profiles extrusion are. Solidworks simulation premium includes all of the capabilities of solidworks. The extrusion process simulation represents the final part of this work. Well, trust me, youve seen the product of its handiwork and its likely youve even interacted with it today. We do process design simulation services for hot forging for smes. Qform extrusion is a special software for numerical simulation of aluminum profile extrusion. The simulation software can be integrated in an openloop type of control system as it generates sufficiently fast new values of the process settings. To simulate a multilayer flow during coextrusion, polyxtrue uses a newly developed algorithm.
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