METHOD FOR FORMING ARTICLES AT AN ELEVATED TEMPERATURE

摘要

A method for hot/warm forming an article that includes heating a billet in a first heater; forging the heated billet in a forging die to form an intermediate workpiece; removing the intermediate workpiece from the forging die while a temperature of the intermediate workpiece is greater than or equal to a predetermined elevated temperature of 1,000 degrees F; and heat treating the intermediate workpiece before the intermediate workpiece has cooled below the predetermined elevated temperature.