Conversion of induction heating temperature from ANSYS to DEFORM

In the production of hot extrusion pipes,the billet will be heated in an induction furnace,before piercing or extrusion,to a certain temperature.The induction heating temperature field profile in the billet will exert an influence on the deformation processes.The study has developed an data conversion program to convert the temperature data from induction heating by ANSYS to deformation simulation software DEFORM; therefore,not only the relatively accurate temperature field can be made available,compared with the usually assumed uniform temperature field,but also the connection between induction heating and deformation can be established,which is essential to evaluate the processing parameters.Numerical simulation of the piercing processes of different temperature fields by induction heating was carried out,and the results have shown that the different initial temperature fields in the billet can lead to different deformation curves,which indicates that the conversion program is necessary to study the production process of hot extrusion pipes.