The isothermal forging process is an effective method to manufacture complex-shaped components of hard-to-work materials, pure energy jeans such as magnesium alloys.This study investigates the isothermal forging process of an MB26 magnesium alloy adaptor with three branches.The results show that two-step forging process is appropriate to form the adaptor forging, which not only improves the filling quality but also reduces the forging load compared with one-step forging process.
Moreover, the flow line is distributed along the bovi-shield gold fp 5 l5 contour of the complex-shaped adaptor forging.