DEPARTMENT OF MARSEL DESIGN

“DESIGN OF FOUR
PRESS” AM COLUMN HYDRAULIC

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ABSTRACT
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT.........................................................................................................................................................
Chapter one.............................................................................................................................4
1.1 INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................4
1.1.1 BACKGROUND OF HYDRAULIC PRESS......................................................4
What is Hydraulic Press Machine?.........................................................................................4
Types of Hydraulic Press Machine.........................................................................................5
Advantages of Hydraulic Press Machine.............................................................................11
Application of Hydraulic Press............................................................................................13
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT.........................................................................................14
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT..............................................................................14
1.4 METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................15
1.5 PROJECT ORGANIZATION....................................................................................15
CHAPTER TWO..................................................................................................................15
2. LITERATURE REVIEW.................................................................................................15
CHAPTER THREE..............................................................................................................15
3. GEOMETRIC AND FORCE ANALYSIS.......................................................................15
3.1Geometric analysis..........................................................................................................15
3.1.1 WORKING PRINCIPLE.........................................................................................15
3.1.2 MATERIAL SELECTION......................................................................................15
3.2 FORCE ANALYSIS......................................................................................................15
CHAPTER FOUR................................................................................................................15
CHAPTER FIVE..................................................................................................................15
5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION...............................................................15
5.1 CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................15
5.2 RECOMMENDATION..............................................................................................15
REFERENCES..................................................................................................................................................
APPENDIX........................................................................................................................................................
Appendix A: Useful tables...................................................................................................16
Appendix B: Detailed drawing.............................................................................................16
Chapter one
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.1.1 BACKGROUND OF HYDRAULIC PRESS
What is Hydraulic Press Machine?

Fig.1 Hydraulic Press Machine Diagram

 Hydraulic Press Definition

The hydraulic press is a kind of machine which uses the liquid as a working medium to
transfer energy based on PASCAL’s principle to realize various technique. Generally, the
hydraulic press machine consists of three parts: the machine (mainframe), the power system
and the system. Hydraulic press machine (also known as hydraulic oil press) is a machine that
makes use of the static pressure of the liquid to process metal, plastic, rubber, wood, powder
products. It is often used in pressing and pressing forming processes, such as forging
press, stamping, cold extrusion, straightening, bending, flanging, sheet drawing, powder
metallurgy, pressing, etc.

Types of Hydraulic Press Machine

According to the structural form, the hydraulic press machine is mainly divided into:

 Four-column hydraulic press

 Single column hydraulic press (C type)
 Horizontal hydraulic press
 Vertical frame hydraulic press
 Universal hydraulic press
According to the applications, it is mainly divided into metal forming, bending, stretching,
punching, powder (metal, non-metal) forming, pressing, extrusion and so on.

Hot forging hydraulic press

As one of the most widely used equipment in the forging industry, the large hydraulic forging
machine is able to complete all kinds of free forging technique.

At present, there are series of forging hydraulic presses with 800T, 1600T, 2000T, 2500T,
3150T, 4000T and 5000T specifications.

Four-column hydraulic press

The four pillar hydraulic press is suitable for pressing the plastic material, like powder
products forming, plastic products forming, cold (hot) extrusion metal forming, sheet
drawing, transverse pressing, bending, penetration, and correction processes.

The four-column hydraulic press can be divided into the four-column two-beam hydraulic
press, four-column three-beam hydraulic press and four-column four-beam hydraulic press.
C-frame hydraulic press

Extendable working range, able to lengthen hydraulic cylinder stroke (optional) using three-
sided space with max retract ability 260mm-800mm. Able to preset working pressure and
with heat abstractor device.

Horizontal hydraulic press

The machine parts can be assembled, disassembled, straightened, compressed, stretched,

bent, punched, etc to realize one machine with multi-purpose.

The working table of this machine can move up and down, the size expands the opening and
closing height of the machine, making it more convenient to use.

Two-pillar hydraulic press

This series of products are suitable for pressing, bending and shaping of all kinds of parts,
stamping indentation, flanging, punching and light stretching of small parts. And it also
suitable for metal powder products forming.

Adopt electric control, with job motion and semi-automatic cycle, can protect the time of
pressure delay, and have good sliding block direction, easy operation, easy maintenance,
economic durability.

According to the needs of users can add thermal instruments, ejector cylinder, travel display,
counting functions.

It is made based on PASCAL’s law and makes use of fluid pressure transmission.

The two-pillar hydraulic press not only has many types but also has a variety of applications.

If classified by the type of liquid that transferring pressure, the two-pillar hydraulic press can
be divided into oil press and water press.

The total pressure produced by water is large and is often used for forging and stamping.

The forging press is also divided into two types: die forging water press and free forging
water press.
The die forging water press need to use the mold, while the free forging water press does not.

Advantages of Hydraulic Press Machine

Compared with the traditional stamping process, the hydroforming process has obvious
technical and economic advantages over reduce weight, reduce the number of parts and mold
quantity, improve the rigidity and strength, reduce the production cost etc. More and more
applications have been made in the industrial field, especially in the automobile industry.

In the automotive industry, aviation, aerospace fields, it is a long-term goal to reduce the
structural quality and save the energy in operation. It is also one of the trends of the
development of advanced manufacturing technology.

Hydroforming is an advanced manufacturing technology for realizing lightweight structure.

Compared with stamping and welding technology, hydraulic forming technology has the
following main advantages:

1. Reduce weight and save materials

For typical parts such as automobile engine bracket and radiator bracket, hydraulic forming
parts are 20% ~ 40% lighter than stamping parts. For hollow step shaft parts, the weight can
be reduced by 40% ~ 50%.

2. Reduce the number of parts and molds and lower the cost of molds

Hydraulic forming parts usually only need one set of molds, while most stamping parts need
more sets of molds. Hydraulic forming engine bracket parts reduced from 6 to 1, radiator
bracket parts reduced from 17 to 10.

3. Reduce the welding of subsequent machining and assembly

Take the radiator support, for example, the heat dissipation area increased by 43%, the
soldering point decreased from 174 to 20, the process decreased from 13 to 6, and the
productivity increased by 66%.

4. Improve strength and rigidity, especially fatigue strength

 For example, the rigidity of the hydro formed radiator bracket can be increased by 39% in the
vertical direction and 50% in the horizontal direction.

5. Lower production cost

According to the statistical analysis of the used hydraulic forming parts, the average
production cost of hydraulic forming parts is 15% ~ 20% lower than that of stamping parts,
and the mold cost is 20% ~ 30% lower.

Application of Hydraulic Press

Hydraulic presses can be used for the process of drawing forming, turning, bending and
stamping of metal sheet parts. It can also be used in general pressing technology by adding
blanking buffer, blanking, moving table devices according to the user needs.

In addition to forging and forming, the three-beam four-column hydraulic press can also be
used to correct, press mounting, packing, briquetting and plate pressing.

Suitable materials for the hydraulic forming process include carbon steel, stainless steel,
aluminum alloy, copper alloy and nickel alloy.

In principle, all materials suitable for cold forming are suitable for the hydraulic forming
process.

It is widely used in automobile parts factory, electronics factory, electric appliance factory,
heat treatment plant, automobile parts factory, gear factory, air conditioning parts factory

Besides, hydraulic forming technology has been widely used in automobile, aviation,
aerospace and pipeline industries. It is mainly applicable to:

 Hollow structural parts with circular, rectangular or special-shaped sections changing along
the axis of the components, such as the special-shaped pipe parts of the exhaust system of an
automobile;
 Non-circular hollow frame, such as engine bracket, instrument panel bracket and body frame
(accounting for 11% ~ 15% of vehicle quality);
 Hollow shaft parts and complex pipe fittings etc.

1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT
1.3.1 Main objective

The main objective of this project is to “design and simulate four column hydraulic press” .

1.3.2Specific objective

 Selection of material
 Modeling and simulating hydraulic press using solid work.
1.3 METHODOLOGY
1.4 PROJECT ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER TWO
2. LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE
3. GEOMETRIC AND FORCE ANALYSIS
3.1Geometric analysis
3.1.1 WORKING PRINCIPLE
3.1.2 MATERIAL SELECTION
3.2 FORCE ANALYSIS
CHAPTER FOUR
4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION
CHAPTER FIVE
5. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 CONCLUSION
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5.2 RECOMMENDATION
REFERENCES
APPENDIX
Appendix A: Useful tables
Appendix B: Detailed drawing