Development of Finite Element models for a Swaging process

位于安大略的密西索加，加拿大默森多伦多公司。(http：ep-ca.mersen.com）是电力行业的领导者 工业，制造各种电子元件，包括保险丝，开关，功率电阻器，直流条接触器， 层压母线和散热器。电力使用的增长导致对散热器的需求增加，以冷却高功率设备，例如转换器和电动机。这为像默森这样的公司提供了增加 他们的产量和合并到大批量生产市场，使他们能够创造更多的就业机会，赚取更高的 利润目前，默森采用旋锻工艺生产高质量散热器，并正在寻求优化这一工艺 与位于安大略汉密尔顿的麦克马斯特大学的吴博士合作。解决方案将由开发 基于有限元（FE）的模型，可精确模拟旋锻过程。该模式将有助于改善这两个方面 工艺和部件设计，重点是提高生产效率和消除当前问题。

Located in Mississauga, Ontario, Mersen Canada Toronto Inc. (http://ep-ca.mersen.com) is a leader in the electrical power industry, manufacturing a variety of electronic components including fuses, switches, power resistors, DC bar contactors, laminated busbar and heat sinks. The growing use of electricity has led to an increased need for heat sinks to cool high power devices, such as converters and electric motors. This presents the opportunity for companies like Mersen to increase their output and merge into the high volume production market, allowing them to create more jobs and earn higher profits. Currently, Mersen uses a swaging process to produce high quality heat sinks and is seeking to optimize this process in partnership with Dr. Wu at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. A solution will be driven by the development of a Finite Element (FE) based model to accurately simulate the swaging process. The model will facilitate improvements to both the process as well as component design with emphasis on increasing production efficiency and eliminating current issues.