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FORGE® is the software solution for the simulation of hot and cold forming processes. It has been the flagship product of Transvalor for almost 35 years and is used by customers throughout the world. FORGE® fulfills the needs of companies producing forged parts for a variety of industrial sectors.
FORGE® software has unique features such as point tracking to easily detect any cold-shut areas in the part and to predict metal fibering which is essential to ensure that forgings possess good mechanical properties. Innovative marking techniques allow to materialize the segregations located in the center of the billet or to identify flow-through defects.
FORGE® incorporates several damage criteria that can be enabled to detect critical areas on the part.
Fold/lap analysis: accurate folds/laps prediction of a mining steel component.
Fold/lap area is shown in red inside the frame.
Tool life is a major challenge for which FORGE® predicts stresses, abrasive wear, temperatures and also areas subject to elastic or plastic deformation.
FORGE® predicts forging loads, energies consumed,torques and powers developed during each deformation operation. Then you can anticipate whether the effort required does not exceed the maximum capacity of your equipment, balance forging loads between the different stages and view die balancing and deflection problems.
Transvalor has been the first software provider to promote the concept of automatic optimization applied to material forming processes. Optimizing the starting billets to automatically improve yield or determining the ideal rolled preforms to ensure complete and defect-free die filling. Applied to forged components, automatic optimization allows the reduction of material costs by decreasing initial billet weight, do savings on energy cost by decreasing press load and extend die life by minimizing stress levels in the dies.
Optimization of the amount of flash.
Before optimisation (red) and after optimisation (blue)
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Develop and validate the entire induction hardening process for rack bar components, covering both the teeth and the side of the part.
The project initiated by creating a 3D CAD model for a complex rack bar and collecting material properties. Validation of 3D FEM models involved comparisons of heat-affected zones, martensite phase distribution, and hardness profiles.
