ARAI - FID has plans to carry out research projects in numerous fields of forging and related areas.

As a first step, ARAI - FID proudly announces, initiation of research project titled 'Effect of deformation temperature on microstructure and mechanical properties of hot forged materials'. This project is sponsored through CESS programs of Dept. of Heavy Industries, Govt. of India.

Total duration of the project will be 30 months and the Project will commence from April 2010.

Following table elaborates Computer Aided Engineering (CAx) capability

Sr. No. CAx Activity Software Tools Computing Resources 1 Forging Product and Process Simulation FORGE (From Transvalor, France) Dedicated HP make 16 Core Cluster 4X Computation Nodes, AMD Opteron, 4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 2 Computer Aided Design (CAD)   Unigraphics   Pro/Engineer   Autodesk Inventor Dedicated HP make 4600 workstations: 13 Nos. Intel Core 2 Duo, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quardo FX3700, 512 MB PCIE Graphics 3 Finite Element Applications (FEA)   HyperWorks   UGNX – Nastran Dedicated HP make 6600 workstations: 2 Nos. Intel Xeon E5420, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA Quardo FX1700, 512 MB PCIE Graphics

Some of Case studies at ARAI - FID

Case study1	Case study2

Case study1: In this case, open die heavy forging process is simulated. The simulation helps in understanding, grain flow, probable forging defects like under fill, folds or cracks.

Case study2: In this case, closed die cold forging process is simulated. Objective of the simulation was to distribute forging force, optimize grain flow and remove under fill. The photographs show, accuracy of simulation as compared to actual process.