Lateral extrusion is a method for making "disc" shaped products. The extrusion press includes a billet chamber, a ram adapted to drive a billet through the billet chamber and a mandrel for making an axial flow of metal change to radial direction. This reseach is about an unique extrusion process, which is based on lateral extrusion. In lateral extrusion, a billet is extruded radially by a mandrel. As the extrusion progresses, the diameter of produced disc increases. But, when the extrusion has more progressed, the produced disc breaks at the circumference of it because of tensile force. The maximum diameter of A1050 at cold work, expressed by the sectional area ratio of billet (
A0) to disc (
A1), is about 5 (=
A1/
A0). To improve the sectional area ratio, attention is paid to the design of mandrel. Several kinds of mandrels are used in this experiment. The mandrel with radial grooves, the mandrel with concentric step, the mandrel with concentric grooves with no lubrication make the ratio improve. Further, the experiment with the mandrel with radial grooves and concentric step is performed. The mandrel with radial grooves and concentric step can make the ratio larger than the mandrel with each element individually. About the mandrel with radial grooves, the relation between number of grooves and the ratio, and depth of grooves and the ratio are researched.
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