The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of tubular shaft hole length on the A-IMS production process in numerically. The hole length of tubular shaft was changed from 69.5mm to 79.5mm for distribution of load and stress. Then, the tubular shaft was modeled by S20C which was referred to program library. At the same time, the results of numerical analysis were compared in terms of under-fill, metal flow, principal stress, Von-mises stress and load characteristics. In the results, the load and stress were increased at 4 stage when the hole length of tubular shaft was increased. Also, folding phenomenon was observed to intensify as increasing the hole length of tubular shaft by confirmation of metal flow.

The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of closed and open type on the load characteristics and amount of waste in tubular shaft and solid shaft for optimal design. The open and closed type were designed by 6 stage processes and applied for analysis. The coefficient of friction was set to Oil_Cold conditions as refer to the analysis library. It is found that the actual underfill phenomenon was not observed on the closed and open type. The metal flow of the closed and open type are revealed that the folding phenomenon was not occurred, thus there is no problem in actual production. The load characteristics are similar from stage 1 to stage 3 due to the same geometry of upper and lower die. However, tubular shaft and solid shaft are decreased 26% and 32% load from stage 4 to stage 6. In case of open type, amount of waste of tubular shaft and solid shaft are 11g and 14g, respectively.