Prediction of the Brittle Damage Evolution in Extrusion/Forging Die

압출/단조 금형의 취성결함성장예측

The failure of die often occurs as a result of growth of microcracks - referred as a brittle damage. In this study, an analysis of brittle damage evolution cupled with elastic finite element analysis of die deformation is presented. A local transformation from the tractions of a workpiece mesh to those of a die mesh is developed. The brittle damage is defined as a vector considering the shape of common microcracks in the brittle metals and the damage function suggested by Krajcinovic is utillized. Applications of the proposed model to modeling damage evolution in the extrusion die and forging die are given and the characteristics of brittle damage evolution in die are in detail examined.