Abstract
The present paper shows the development of temperatures, stresses and lifetime consumption during three copper extrusion cycles in a two-part container. The simulation of the heat treatment and the resulting state of the container used was the basis for the subsequent modelling of the cyclic loads during the press cycles. The numerical FEM extrusion simulation consists of the plastic simulation of the billet extrusion with rigid tools as well as of the subsequent simulation of several cycles of the same process, only considering the elastic container and using the time dependent temperature and pressure boundary conditions at the contact surface billet-liner. The reason for this procedure is the much shorter calculation time for the elastic container model with specified boundary conditions in comparison to the plastic extrusion process, especially for several extrusion cycles. Both a constitutive law and a lifetime consumption rule were coupled to the elastic container model in order to get the local inelastic strain rates and the damage rate, respectively. To verify the calculated temperature and pressure boundary conditions at the contact surface billet-liner, an experimental extruding test facility was constructed.