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International Journal of Mining, Metallurgy Mechanical Engineering (IJMMME) Volume 1, Issue 2 (2013) ISSN 2320–4060 (Online) Study the Interface Shape of Tooling and Work Piece Contact During a Flow Forming Operation Hamidreza Gharehchahi and Amin Etminan induce high levels of plasticity in the workpiece causing it to Abstract— In the last two decades or so, flow forming has undergo both reduction in thickness and axial lengthening. gradually matured as metal forming process for the production of Since the rollers press on only a very small area of the overall engineering components in small to medium batch quantities. Flow workpiece at any given time, the deformation is highly forming technique is being utilized increasingly due to the great localized between the roller and workpiece. To properly flexibility provided for producing complicated parts nearer to net shape, enabling customers to optimize designs and reduce weight and understand the distribution of this intense local plastic cost, all of which are vital, especially in automotive industries. But deformation it is essential to be able to calculate the this method involves complicated tooling/workpiece interactions. roller/workpiece contact area from the geometric parameters Purely analytical models of the tool contact area are difficult to that govern the flow forming process. In addition, the formulate, resulting in numerical approaches that