FORGE Magazine

December 2021

Check out the December 2021 issue of FORGE, featuring our story on "NDT in Aerospace Applications", and much more.

Simulating Electrified Forming Processes

Nicolas Poulain

December 16, 2021

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This article describes the phenomena behind electrically driven forming processes. Then it explains the implementations made in the simulation software FORGE® (unrelated to this publication’s name) to support these processes. Finally, the article describes an example of the Electrically Assisted Forming (EAF) process.

Induction Heating for Forging Billets

L. Terry Clausing

December 20, 2021

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Using the metaphor of cooking a steak to its desired level of “doneness,” this article examines the difficulties involved in “cooking” forging billets in induction coils to their most uniform level of completion.

Forge Fair 2021 in Review

Dean M. Peters

December 10, 2021

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For three days in late October, Motown played host to 1,300 attendees and 129 exhibitors at Forge Fair 2021. It was not the largest show ever, but – after having been cancelled twice in 2020 – the enthusiasm by the show’s attendees in doing business person-to-person again was unbounded. The next Forge Fair will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, May 23-25, 2023.

A Closer Look at NDT in Aerospace Applications

Jesse Herrin

December 9, 2021

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In 2018, after a fractured fan blade led to the failure of a CFM56-7B engine on a Southwest Airlines 737, resulting in the death of a passenger, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration directed a one-time ultrasonic inspection of all 24 fan blades on engines with more than 30,000 flight cycles.

Legal Ease

U.S., EU Announce Steel and Aluminum Trade Agreement

David Resser

December 20, 2021

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The United States and the European Union (EU) released a joint fact sheet on October 31 announcing terms of a tariff agreement completed between the two global economic powers.