Simulation and Analysis of Investment Casting
Course Duration: 2 Days
Who Should Attend
Engineers involved in design, specification, or research related to investment casting. Experience with STAR-CCM+ is preferred but not required.
Course Description
The course will cover the following aspects of Investment Casting via a mixture of lectures, demos and tutorials.
- CAD to Mesh for castings
- Investment Shelling based on Local Curvature
- Parametric Gating Design
- Iso-thermal Filling
- Coupled Filling and Solidification
- Semi-soild state of Alloys and Misrun Prediction
- Radiation
Course Content
Day 1
- Introduction to STAR-Cast and STAR-CCM+
- CAD preparation, organization and meshing
- Investment shelling
- Parametric Gating Design
Day 2- Multiphase Iso-thermal Filling
- Coupled Filling and Solidification
- Semi-solid state and Alloys and Misrun Prediction
- Miscellaneous Topics including Radiation and Motion Models for Centrifugal and Tilt casting