Foundry: Filling
The filling of a sand casting of a steel engine block
is shown below. The
metal is is fed into the mold through an inlet at the bottom of the casting.
The fluid is colored by temperature. Click to view animation.
Fluid colored by temperature
Complete Ladle to Mold Casting Simulation!
The cylinder head pictured below is for a 3.6L V6 engine used in the Cadillac CTS and Saturn Aura XR. It is cast with an A319 alloy using a semi-permanent mold process. The Air Entrainment and Surface Defect models were used to optimize the basin and ladle design.
Simulation of a cylinder head for a 3.6L V6 engine, colored by defect concentration. Image courtesy of General Motors Powertrain.
Read more in our Casting Tech Papers