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Low Pressure Die Casting Workspace Highlights
- Pressure controlled filling for absolute fill accuracy
- Full process modeling includes void, venting and back-pressure effects
- Advanced solidification and heat transfer control for precise early freezing and solidification defects like porosity
Workspace Overview
The Low Pressure Die Casting Workspace is an intuitive modeling environment designed for engineers to successfully model low pressure die casting applications with FLOW-3D CAST. Flexible pressure controls allow engineers to accurately reproduce pressure, venting and backpressure conditions in order to deliver a complete analysis of fill, air entrapment and porosity defects. Die thermal management and state-of-the-art solidification models seamlessly connect to the fill through the workspace’s sub-process architecture. The Low Pressure Die Casting Workspace provides a complete and accurate solution for all aspects of the simulation in a simple yet versatile modeling environment.
Processes modeled
- Gravity low pressure die casting
Flexible Meshing
- FAVOR™ simple mesh generation tool
- Multi-block meshing
- Nested meshing
Die thermal managment
- Thermal die cycling
- Heat saturation
- Full heat transfer modeling
Advanced solidification
- Porosity prediction
- Shrinkage
- Hot spots identification
- Mechanical property prediction
- Microstructure prediction
Sand Cores
- Core gas evolution
- Material definitions for core properties
Vacuum and Venting
- Interactive probe placement
- Area and loss coefficient calculator
Ladle Motion
- 6 degrees of freedom motion definition
Filling Accuracy
- Gas and bubble entrapment
- Surface oxide calculation
- RNG and LES turbulence models
- Backpressure
Defect prediction
- Macro and micro porosity
- Gas porosity
- Early solidification
- Oxide formation
- Surface defect analysis
Dynamic simulation control
- Probe based triggers
- Heat Controls
- Vacuum and venting controls
Complete analysis package
- Animations with multi-viewports - 3D, 2D, history plots, volume rendering
- Porosity analysis tool
- Side-by-side simulation results comparison
- Sensors for measuring melt temperature, solid fraction
- Particle tracers
- Batch post-processing
- Report generation
I have personally modeled the filling, solidification, and cooling of countless castings, with the goal being to maximize metal cleanliness and soundness, and to control grain structure, segregation and stress related defects. We have had a great deal of success using FLOW-3D CAST to predict casting performance, to optimize quality, and to reduce cost by reducing rework, scrap, and lead-time.
Richard EmmerichSr. Metallurgical Dev't Engineer, MetalTek International
We are using FLOW-3D CAST not only as a die cast process simulation tool but also as a general CFD software tool. If during die cast process development, any part design changes need to be recommended to a customer, FLOW-3D CAST allows us quickly and reliably evaluate part design changes, and present to a customer not only the proposed changes but also the effects those changes will have on the part performance.
Alex ReikherShiloh Industries
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