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