How to develop Aluminum Forging.

why r u trying to do aluminum forging i think the best way to treat aluminum is casting.........opt for die casting(if it is feasible) it would be cheaper too..

Alum forging is used for automotive rims and pistons. Forged parts are stronger and require less material for the same application.

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I am in the middle of designing a titaiunm forging plant. This plant uses an aluminum titanium ingots and through a forge hammer presses the air out and aligns the molucules so that it is a higher grade billets that can be used for the aircraft industry.

The part I do is the site work. It is my opinion that the first thing that should be done is to hire a professional that knows the process. "If you don't know the process you don't know what you are doing". There are a lot of things to understand that one person can not do along. Take the site work for instance.

The soils we are dealing with are silty clays. They are subject to liquifaction from vibration. We are in a earthquake zone. We have a high water table. There are a lot of old buildings surrounding the site and we are going to be pounding and pounding. So we have to be careful to not setup a resonate vibration that would take down everything around us. All of these things require an intimate knowlege of how they work together. Therefore is a 34' deep pit required for the shock asorber below the forge and a 10' thick footing.

Now having said all that, then there is the buiding, with cranes to move the products around, saws, building codes, zoning codes ... the list goes on and on.

The forge depends on the site conditions as well as the the materials being forged, the rate of vibration, hte rate the product is being fed to the forge, the thickness of the peice, the tempature, the weight and frquency of the hammers, wheather it is steam driven, pneumatic, hydraulic, .....

get the picture? You need someone who knows the bussiness.

Try the Forging Industries Association web site. Lots of useful information there.