Author : Anuj Chaudhary and Pardeep Rana

Pressure die casting is about 150 years old and one of the widely used processes for the mass production of components required in many applications like automobiles, electrical equipment, motors, telecommunications equipment, building hardware, home appliances, etc. The design of die casting die requires considerable skill and expertise. Designer purposes designs of dies employed to cast parts from various alloys and perform a variety of other operations. Every new job requires original thought in its design and the solving of individual problems in its manufacture. Each die cast component, currently in production, presents a challenge for the improvement of its output and quality. The objective here is to design dies to be fit for the purpose, operate at optimum shot rate and is of reasonably simple construction. The main purpose of this report is to present the systematic design procedure for pressure die casting dies. Die casting dies like any other type of tooling can be very simple and very complex. How difficult is to design and build depends entirely on the parts to produce. They can be as simple as a single cavity die with no side cores or they can be complicated dies, which represent split dies along with moving cores actuated by either finger cams or hydraulic cylinders depending on the feasibility. This project involves design of die casting die for the Cover Cylinder Head-1 for two wheeler. The scope of the project involves: Component Study, Design Calculations, Designing the tool.

Keywords: Die Design, High Pressure Die Casting Die etc

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.7, No.5 (Sept/Oct 2017)