Complete analysis of crankshaft hot forging process

Complete analysis, that is, fully coupled analysis between die-material deformation as well as flow and heat transfer problems of a hot forging process of a crankshaft was conducted using rigid-thermo-viscoplastic finite element analysis function of the latest version with die deformation coupled with plastic deformation of material. Note that the computational time was reduced drastically by a factor of 5, compared with the previous version.