The effects of die structure such as the height of the welding,the welding angle and chamber the shape of the bridge on the welding quality of profiles were investigated by means of the commercial software DEFORM-3D.The numerical simulation results show that the welding quality of the hollow profiles has great sensitive to the die structure.With increasing the welding chamber height and decreasing the welding angle of the die leg can improve the welding quality.In addition,the welding quality index k of the new designed shape of the die leg is little down from 4.1 to 3.9 comparing the standard leg.
In order to investigate the effects of pockets in the porthole die on the metal flow,temperature at the die bearing exit and the extrusion load were contrasted with the traditional die design without the pockets in the lower die.Two different multi-hole porthole dies with and without pockets in lower die were designed.And the extrusion process was simulated based on the commercial software DEFORM-3D.The simulation results show that the pockets could be used to effectively adjust the metal flow and especially benefit to the metal flow under the legs.In addition,the maximum temperature at the die bearing and the peak extrusion load decrease,which indicates the possibility of increasing the extrusion speed and productivity.
