Check the reduction before the first heat.
Enter your stock and forged size. The gauge shows total reduction against your spec, and the job plan fills in heating, sequence and machining.
1Input stock
2Forged size
3Upset optional
4Required reduction
5Temperatures & last heat optional, drives the warnings
Warning settings
The 10 in trigger for the hydrogen-flaking reminder is a suggested threshold, not a spec. Your setting is saved in this browser.
Enter the finish (machined) sizes. The check takes off the scale from your planned heats and tells you how much clean-up stock is left on each surface.
Forging issues & prevention
Plans the bites for drawing out on flat dies. Bite ratio = bite length ÷ section height. No published limit was found, so enter your shop's range to get a check.
For void closure, a 3:1 total forging ratio is the usual industry guideline; one study saw cavities close at 2.9:1 (Kwon et al., 2019). Your total reduction is on the results ticket.
Weight of real forging shapes using the density from Step 1. Send the result to the weight check in Step 2.
Extra material to forge for test coupons and UT, so the part isn't short after the test pieces are cut off. Uses the forged section from Step 2.
Plans how many cuts of a set weight come out of one ingot or bar, and how much is lost. Blank size boxes use the Step 1 stock.
Start with the forging you received, cut the test chunk, then lay out each test piece in it: where it sits, which way it runs, and how deep. Your drawing and PO govern; this helps you read and check them.
1The forging
2Cut the test chunk
3Test pieces
Plan the test material before forging
Works out how much extra to forge for these test pieces, and where it comes from.
Directions follow the usual conventions: L, LT (T), ST (S) for square and rectangular bars; L, C, R for round bars; tangential (C), axial (L), radial (R) for rings. Notch codes follow ASTM E1823: the first letter is the specimen's long axis (normal to the crack plane), the second is the direction the crack grows. Typical sizes are rough-cut sizes labs publish; the lab machines the test pieces. Check every layout against the drawing, PO and spec.
How the grain in a forging is made, what helps it and what hurts it. The bottom section is for the material picked in Step 1.
Sizes the blank (donut) to make before it goes on the ring mill. It uses the ring in Step 2 as the rolled size. Enter it at the size it comes off the mill.
Draft sequence built from your inputs and the producer data for this material. Edit it to match your shop practice before it goes on a traveler.