UPSET FORGING OF VALVES

Valve materials
• Many naturally aspirated race engines (and
some production engines) use titanium as an
exhaust valve material.

• Austenitic steels such as 21-4N

 Upset forging
• Upset forging increases the diameter of the workpiece by
compressing its length.

• Based on number of pieces produced, this is the most widely

used forging process.

• A few examples of common parts produced using the upset

forging process are engine valves, couplings, bolts, screws,
and other fasteners.

• Upset forging is usually done in special high-speed machines

called crank presses
 Extrusion
• Extrusion is a process used to create objects
of a fixed cross-sectional profile. A material is
pushed through a die of the desired cross-
section.