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   <dc:title>Design and study of SPD processes; HPT and MF</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Arrebola Bernet, Juan José</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Cabrera Marrero, José M.</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria dels materials</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Materials--Mechanical properties</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Materials -- Propietats mecàniques</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>This master thesis aims to model the severe plastic deformation through the HPT (High Pressure&#xd;
Torsion) and MDF (Multi Directional Forging) methods in order to determine the necessary external&#xd;
loads. These external loads, see torque and pressure or exerted load, have been calculated through a&#xd;
finite element method and CAE software, and they will be used in a future project to develop a&#xd;
hydraulic torsion press in order to be able to develop the HPT SPD processes in the PROCOMAME&#xd;
(Procesos de Conformado de Materiales Metálicos) group laboratories in the EEBE (Escola d’Enginyeria&#xd;
de Barcelona Est) faculty of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC).&#xd;
The results show the relation between the numbers of turns, torque, load and the effect of&#xd;
those over the material, illustrating the effective strain and stress accumulated along the process. The&#xd;
accumulated torque data is very promising, and shows a saturation in few turns, giving a reliable&#xd;
constant torque with which a hydraulic and torsion machine would be effectively designed, giving, of&#xd;
course, a safe margin of security.&#xd;
On the other hand, in cooperation with a research group from Autonomous National&#xd;
University of Mexico (UNAM), new state-of-the-art studies have been simulated in terms of a modified&#xd;
HPT processes. The process has the particularity that torsion and compression are applied at the same&#xd;
time, whereas normally pressure is first applied before torsion. The established relationship in México’s&#xd;
machine is 1 turn per 5 mm, and the main objective is to obtain the external loads and if the&#xd;
accumulated effective strain would be enough to process an ultra-fine grain material with the expected&#xd;
material properties. As a previous essay, a mechanical buckling effect is analytically performed&#xd;
beforehand in order to avoid this effect due to the small section as a function of sample length. The&#xd;
obtained results show a new possible method to obtain severe plastic deformation materials with a&#xd;
bigger size than other processes avoiding the plausible buckling effect, which is estimated around 40&#xd;
and 70 mm for Aluminium 1100 depending on the set-up chosen.&#xd;
Finally, a thermal analysis simulation is performed for the MDF method in order to study the&#xd;
heat flux and its evolution generated along the process and after that, the heat flux dispersion&#xd;
evacuated out of the system.&#xd;
The results show a great concordance with empirical data obtained in a different master thesis&#xd;
developed in parallel inside the same department, reaching to temperatures of 1ºC in the external face&#xd;
of the dies.</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2018-01-26</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Master thesis</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/117117</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Spain</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:publisher>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</dc:publisher>
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