https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=2137 Titanium forming processes are often limited by severe adhesive wear as a result of poor friction conditions. This can be partially remedied with careful selection of lubricant, billet preparation and tool coating, but the optimal combination of these factors is not known. A full factorial ring compression experiment, with grade 2 commercially pure titanium rings deformed at 300 °C, was conducted to study the effect of each of these factors over three levels. The change in internal diameter was compared to a set of calibration curves generated by an FEA simulation of the process in order to determine the friction coefficient during each trial. A robust statistical analysis methodology was used to isolate and evaluate the effect of varying each factor. The choice of lubricant was found to be the most statistically significant factor by a considerable margin, followed by the method of billet preparation, with tool coating found to be insignificant. Of the lubricants tested, the graphite-based lubricant resulted in the lowest friction, followed by the WS2- and MoS2-based lubricants. Sandblasted billet surfaces resulted in similar friction to as-machined surfaces, whereas those subjected to micro-arc oxidation performed notably worse. For reducing friction during warm forming of titanium, a graphite-based lubricant is therefore recommended, with tool coating and billet surface preparation unlikely to provide significant further improvement. Mini Symposia MS01 (Friction & Wear) fr Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:09:22 +0100 Fri, 02 Apr 2021 09:58:21 +0200 https://popups.uliege.be/esaform21/index.php?id=2137 0