Copper alloys have good plasticity and strength, good abrasion resistance and thermal conductivity, especially good corrosion resistance in air and sea water. It has been widely used in electric power, instruments, ships and other industrial sectors.
Most copper alloys have good plasticity at room temperature and high temperature, and can be forged smoothly. Even in the presence of tensile stress, they still have enough plasticity. A few tin-phosphorous bronze with high quality fraction of tin (such as qsn7-0.2) and lead brass with high quality fraction of lead (such as hpb59-1 and hpb64-2) have low plasticity and are sensitive to tensile stress. Qsn7-0.2 is a single-phase invariant solution at room temperature when deformation occurs under static tensile stress. Has the very high plasticity, can undertake cold deformation, but plasticity under high temperature is very low, the reason is that have low melting (alpha + delta + CU3P) eutectic at high temperature.
Most copper alloys are not sensitive to deformation speed and can be forged on a press or hammer, but it is advisable to forge on a press. The phenomenon of heat effect is obvious when tin-phosphor-bronze and manganese bronze are forged. If the deformation speed is too fast, it is easy to overheat or even overheat due to the thermal effect.
When the heating temperature is too high, the copper alloy grain grew up rapidly, reduce its plasticity, so the heating temperature of copper alloy are not more than 900 ℃. When the deformation temperature is below 650 ℃, the deformation resistance increases quickly.
Forging production occupies a very important position in the industrial industry, aluminium alloy is also the commonly used material in forging, all kinds of products that can be forged with low carbon steel can be replaced by aluminium forging. Most forged aluminium parts are safety parts and are produced in large volume, so there is a high requirement on internal quality of aluminium materials. Aluminium forging generally follows these manufacturing processes: blanking - heating - forging - heat treatment - machining. During the whole forging process, each procedure needs to be controlled carefully.












