Highlights
Today's extrusion companies are forced to produce a higher mix of complex profiles in shorter product development cycles while simultaneously reducing their production costs. HyperXtrude is a simulation tool developed to analyze and validate the design of extrusion dies and process.
HyperXtrude enables production engineers to analysis material flow and heat transfer inside a die during extrusion to validate die designs which in turn helps to reduce or eliminate costly and time-consuming die trials.
HyperXtrude® 2015 introduced a new CAD interface for HyperXtrude solver and takes giant leap to a direct CAD to solution approach. This approach automated and hid the meshing and data deck creation; and completely relegated it to the background. Hence, after creating the CAD model user submitted the job for analysis. HyperXtrude 2015 supported only steady state metal extrusion analysis. In this release, this is extended to transient, tool deflection, and bearing optimization analysis.
Supported Analysis Types
| • | Profile nose cone analysis (steady state) |
| • | Multi-cycle transient analysis |
| - | Billet skin tracking analysis |
| - | Tapered billet heating analysis |
| • | Tool deflection analysis with OptiStruct |
| - | With loads mapped from extrusion analysis |
| • | Bearing optimization analysis |
Interface can automatically handle bearing regions with choke.
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Models with bearing starting at different Z-coordinates (variable bearing start) is supported. This requires manual manipulation of the bearing region.
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With a click of a button, any model can be submitted for transient analysis. Charge weld analysis is automatically enabled.
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While creating billet, a skin layer can be added with no additional effort. This automatically enable billet skin tracking analysis, which is used for predicting back end defects, butt length, and any potential issues with the die design.
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Multi-cycle analysis with different billet lengths for each cycle up to five cycles.
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HyperXtrude 2015.1 now supports specification of tapered heating: axial, lateral, and radial. Specification used can be different from cycle to cycle up to a maximum of five cycles. For axial taper, five linear taper zones are supported.
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This release supports an easy to use tool deflection interface. You can import the model, specify constraints, and submit for analysis. Load surface will be automatically determined. This analysis supports mapped loads, linearly interpolated loads, and manually specified constant surface loads.
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An interface to set up a bearing optimization analysis is available in this release.
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An interface to add, delete, edit, and select material is available in the release
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While submitting the job for analysis, users can control the tolerance and number of nonlinear iterations.
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