70. Weight Savings Through Large Forgings
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Abstract
Forging is the often defined as the production of articles of steel or iron or other metal by hammering, pressing, rolling or otherwise shaping the metal while heated but not molten. Typically, this was done by a hammer blow, but the Germans after WWI developed the hydraulic press process to be able to more accurately shape the forgings into finished parts with reduced cross sections for magnesium and aluminum alloys. Forgings can be used to reduce the numbers of parts in an assembly by the elimination of attaching hardware and elimination of overlapping material needed to join the members together.
This paper will discuss the use of forgings for weight savings for the redesign of the YF-96A into the F-84F. Many specific examples will be given.
