Abstract: Facing
the market economy and global challenge the development of
manufacturing industry especially casting industry is critical
to the national economy. To reform the traditional casting
industry by using computer technology is one of the hottest
research frontiers studied by many researchers and engineers.
Computer simulation of solidification process of shaped casting
can assure the quality of casting, optimize the casting
technology, shorten the lead time and therefore decrease the
developing and manufacturing cost. Recently, numerical
simulation of mold-filling and solidification processes of
shaped casting and prediction of microstructure and property as
well are extensively studied and put into application in many
casting plants with many successful simulation cases.
Key words:
Shaped casting Solidification Mold filling Stress analysis
Modeling and simulation
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This project is supported by National Natural Science
Foundation of China (No.59990470-3), Ford-China R & D Project
(No.9715509) and Significant Fundamental Research Project of State
Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No.G2000067208-3). Selected
from Proceedings of 2000 the First International Conference on
Mechanical Engineering; revised manuscript July 28, 2001
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