Computer simulation of the swaging manufacturing process

Computer simulation of a swaging manufacturing process is presented in this paper. Commercially available software has been used to develop the simulation algorithm. Based on the experience gained from trial runs, simulation of a tube swaging process has been carried out. The material parameters "n" (strain hardening exponent) and "K" (plastic modulus) are obtained from actual tensile test measurements of the tube material. Two different geometries for the die and the tube have been used in this work and a comparison made. Numerical simulation of the swaging process has been performed using the commercially available HyperMesh(R) for pre-processing, LS-DYNA(R) for analysis and LS-TAURUS(R) for post-processing. Some of the results obtained from this study are compared with those available in the literature.