International Students Olympiad in Hot Bulk Forging and Extrusion

Technologies

Students of mechanical and mechatronic engineering are invited to take part in

the International Students Olympiad in Hot Bulk Forging Technologies, which will take
place in April 2019 at The University of Guanajuato.

The competition between students will consist of the following parts: participating students
will get a drawing of an axisymmetric part after machining and should design the hot forged
piece and die impression for the final forging and then determine the necessary technological
chain for its manufacturing and then simulate the proposed forging process. The simulation
will be performed in QForm (which is a specific purpose software) software for estimation
and verification of the developed technology.

The designed technology will be judged by the following criteria:

 Computation of the hot forging part drawing;

 Justification of developed bulk forging technology;
 Effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed technology based on the results of
simulation in QForm. The optimally designed technology should provide no defects,
complete filling of the die impression, and consist of a minimum number of
technological chain steps with high forging energy efficiency and high material
consumption efficiency with optimal grain flow.

The University will provide Training and licenses. Training will be according to the schedule
shown below. The participants have to complete at least 30 hours of training. 15 assisted and
15 independently.

Day Item
March 8th Introduction to forging process
March 15th Introduction to Qform
March 29th Advanced topic on simulation
April 5th Introduction to Olympiad

Participating students must have approved solids mechanics. In addition, they have the
compromise to complete the training and participate in the Olympiad.

División de Ingenierías Campus Irapuato Salamanca, Carretera Salamanca - Valle de Santiago Km. 3.5
+ 1.8 Comunidad de Palo Blanco Salamanca, Gto. C.P. 36885 http://www.ingenierias.ugto.mx
fimee@salamanca.ugto.mx