FIERF Fellowship

Awarded annually, the $10,000 FIERF Fellowship provides support for graduate student research of forging industry interest. Recent research includes:

Optimized Carburized Steel Fatigue Performance as Assessed with Gear and Modified Brugger Fatigue Tests comparing the fatigue behavior of commercially produced forged and carburized gears to the fatigue behavior of laboratory samples machined from the shaft portion of the forged gears. Jason Spice, FIERF Fellow and Professor David Matlock, Colorado School of Mines; SAE 2002-01-1003 © 2002 SAE International. This paper is published on this web-site with permission from SAE International. As a user of this web-site, you are permitted to view this paper on-line, download this pdf file and print one copy at no cost for your use only. The downloaded pdf file and printout of this SAE paper may not be copied, distributed or forwarded to others or for the use of others.

Workability of Medium Carbon 1045 Forging Steel with Residual Copper, examines the process parameters appropriate to present day forging practices, simulating the conditions forging steels are subjected to. These new practices, may allow less severe residual copper restrictions, representing significant economic savings for both the steelmaking and forging industries.

Effects of Induction Processing on the Mechanical Properties of Steels with Various Core Microstructures will examine the induction hardening response of common bar steel grades (1541 and 4140) with a variety of controlled prior microstructures. The induction hardening response will be evaluated by bend testing and residual stress measurements.

Forging Fellows at Ohio State University

Three Ph.D. students, under the guidance of Professor Rajiv Shivpuri, are conducting research as part of the Innovative Die Material and Lubrication Strategies for Clean and Energy Conserving Forging Technologies Project funded by the Department of Energy, FIA/FIERF, The Ohio State University, The Ohio Board of Regents, Sypris Technologies and Erie Press Systems.

The program’s goal is to evaluate innovative die material, die surface engineering and lubrication strategies to develop a forging process that sees no die failure during the product life-cycle, produces minimal scrap and uses environmentally benign lubricants.

Research projects are:

• Next Generation Lubricant and Optimal Pretreatment of Workpiece in Cold Forging
• Modeling of Lubricant Droplet and Spray in Hot Forging
• Experiment Study for the Tribology Effect of Both Graphite and Some Non-Graphite Lubricant