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Forging is a combination of forging and stamping, which is a forming and processing method that uses the hammer head, anvil block, punch or mold of forging machinery to apply pressure to the billet, causing plastic deformation and obtaining the desired shape and size of the workpiece.
In forging processing, the billet undergoes significant plastic deformation as a whole, with a large amount of plastic flow; In stamping processing, the blank is mainly formed by
changing the spatial position of the area of each part, and there is no plastic flow over a large distance inside. Forging is mainly used for processing metal parts, and can also be
used for processing certain non-metallic materials such as engineering plastics, rubber, ceramic blanks, brick blanks, and forming composite materials.
Forging and metallurgical industries, such as rolling and drawing, belong to plastic processing, also known as pressure processing. However, forging is mainly used to produce
metal parts, while rolling and drawing are mainly used to produce universal metal materials such as plates, strips, pipes, profiles, and wires.
In the late Neolithic period, humans began to hammer natural red copper to make decorations and small items. China has been using cold forging technology to manufacture
tools for more than 2000 years before the Common Era. For example, the red bronze artifacts unearthed from the Taiqijia cultural site of the Empress Dowager Wuwei in
Gansu Province have obvious hammer marks. In the middle of the Shang Dynasty, weapons were made of meteorite iron using the heating forging process. The block refined
wrought iron that emerged in the late Spring and Autumn period was formed by repeatedly heating and forging to extrude oxide inclusions.
At first, people forged by swinging hammers, but later there was a method of forging blanks by lifting heavy hammers with ropes and pulleys and letting them fall freely. After
the 14th century, animal and hydraulic hammer forging emerged.
In the early 20th century, with the mass production of automobiles, hot forging rapidly developed and became the main forging process. In the mid-20th century, hot
forging presses, flat forging machines, and rootless forging hammers gradually replaced ordinary forging hammers, improving productivity and reducing vibration and
noise. With the development of new forging processes such as low oxidation heating technology, high-precision and long-life molds, hot extrusion, forming and rolling,
as well as forging operating machines, robotic arms, and automatic forging production lines, the efficiency and economic benefits of forging production continue to
improve.
Cold forging emerged before hot forging. Early red copper, gold, silver flakes, and coins were all cold forged. The application of cold forging in mechanical manufacturing
was not promoted until the 20th century, with the development of cold heading, cold extrusion, radial forging, and swing rolling, gradually forming an efficient forging
process that can produce precision parts without cutting.
Early stamping only used simple tools such as shovels, scissors, punches, hammers, and anvils to shape metal plates (mainly copper or copper alloy plates) through manual
cutting, punching, chiseling, and tapping, thus manufacturing musical instruments and jars such as gongs, cymbals, and cymbals. With the increase in production of medium
and thick plates and the development of stamping hydraulic presses and mechanical presses, stamping processing also began to be mechanized in the mid-19th century.
In 1905, the United States began producing hot-rolled narrow strip steel in coils, followed by wide strip steel in 1926, and then cold rolled strip steel. At the same time, the
production of plates and strips has increased, the quality has improved, and the cost has decreased. With the development of production such as ships, railway vehicles, boilers,
containers, automobiles, and canning, stamping has become one of the most widely used forming processes.
Forging is mainly classified according to the forming method and deformation temperature. Forging can be divided into two categories based on the forming method: forging
and stamping; Forging can be divided into hot forging, cold forging, warm forging, and isothermal forging according to the deformation temperature.
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