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A welding neck flange is widely used for an interconnection between pipes. It is produced by a hot forging process, and required high yield strength under the high pressure condition, like a deep-sea. Generally, to increase yield strength, a increasing of carbon content is used, however a carbon content of welding neck flange is limited to 0.47. So, in this study, a strengthening by grain refinement without changing carbon content is used to increase yield strength. Taguchi method and FEM are used for the optimization of forging process and the experiment for the yield strength of the prototype with the optimal forging process is performed for validity. |
