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Bench mark test casting: Modeling of mold filling and solidification

Conference ·
OSTI ID:227830
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  1. Concurrent Technologies Corp., Johnstown, PA (United States)
This paper presents the results of simulating the mold filling and solidification of an aluminum plate casting designed as the Bench Mark Test Casting for this conference. An in-house simulation software, RAPID/CAST{reg_sign}, has been used to conduct this simulation. The output of this simulation include flow front location during mold filling, cooling curves at various points in the casting, temperature distribution, and isochron plots of solidification times. The simulation results indicate that the mold filling time of the entire casting is 2.2 seconds and that the last region to solidify is located around the ingate.
OSTI ID:
227830
Report Number(s):
CONF-9509118--; ISBN 0-87339-297-3
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English