Analysis & Simulation of Casting to Eliminate Casting Defects (original) (raw)

Design and Optimization of Gating and Feeding System for Casting: A Review

In the global competitive environment there is a need for the casting units and foundries to develop the components in short lead time. Casting as a manufacturing process to make complex shapes of metal materials in mass production may experience many different defects such as gas porosity, pin holes, blow holes, shrinkages and incomplete filling. The Gating/riser system design play very important role for improving casting quality. Due to the lack of scientific procedures the designing process is normally carried on a trial-and-error basis. The main objective of this paper is to present the literature review based on recent trends in casting process, design and optimize gating and feeding system of casting,defects minimization by casting simulation, solidification analysis of casting, gaps in literature and introduction of various types simulation software with the goal of improving casting quality such as reducing gas porosity, pin holes, gas holes incomplete filling area and increasing yield. This reviews paper considers the idea about the design and optimization of gating and feeding system which is based on CAD and simulation technique.

Simulation of Casting and Its Validation by Experiments

Now days in Industries it is very important to save time and money in manufacturing product, because there is lots of competition in industrial world. Main objective of this project is re-designed of component using Pro-cast software and increasing the product life of the components. Many researchers reported that about 90% of the defects in castings are due to wrong design of gating & risering system and only 10% due to manufacturing problems. to optimize gating/riser systems based on CAD and simulation technology with the goal of improving casting quality. Therefore in the thesis, an optimization framework is presented based on CAD and simulation technology. Given a CAD model of part design and after converted to a casting model. After analyzing simulation results, the gating/riser system design is optimized to improve casting quality. In this thesis, one journal bearing is used to verify the effectiveness of the optimization method. Compared with the initial design. Casting simulation process can able to solve these problems. The simulated results also compared with the experimental works..

Defects, Root Causes in Casting Process and Their Remedies: Review

Many industry aims to improve quality as well as productivity of manufacturing product. So need to number of process parameter to must controlled while casting process, so there are no of uncertainty and defects are face by organizations. In casting process industries are need to technical solution to minimize the uncertainty and defects. In this review paper to represent various casting defects and root causes for engine parts while casting process. Also provide preventive action to improve quality as well as productivity an industrial level.

A Review on Investigation of Casting Defects with Simulation

Ab st ra c t: Aim of this paper is to investigate casting defects, provide remedies and simulation of casting process by using casting simulation software. Casting defect occurs where mistake happens in the process of casting. Most defects occur due to improper feeding system. Simulation is helpful in minimizing the casting defects. Various simulation softwares like AutoCAST-X, ProCast & SOLIDCast can be used.

Identification and Analysis of Casting Defects

Casting process is the most widely used process in manufacturing industries. Production of casting involves various processes like pattern making, molding, and core making and melting. It is very difficult to produce defect free castings. Systematic analysis and identification of sources of product defects are essential for successful manufacturing. Since the quality of casting parts are mostly influenced by process conditions, how to determine the optimum process condition becomes the key to improving part quality. The industry generally tries to eliminate the defects by trial and error method. This paper describes the identification and analysis of the casting defects. Filling related defects, Shape related defects and Thermal related defects of casting products are discussed in this paper. Defects occurred by various gating system parameters are also be identified. So good gating system reduces the defects.

Optimization Of Runner And Riser Locations To Reduce Blow Hole Defect In The Casting

For any metallic components casting is a primary manufacturing process. And this casting is a combination of various processes that include sand molding, sand core making, assembly of mold and core, melting the raw materials in the furnace pouring the molten metal in the patterns, shake out, inspection and final dispatch. Sometimes the casting process is also difficult to define because even in the proper calculated and controlled casting process the defects are going to appear which is very difficult to obtain sound casting. This study is aimed to solve the blow hole defect which occurs in the casting, and to reduce rejection rates. Blowhole is nothing but the smooth walled cavities of various dimensions created by gas and not allowed to escape out during casting process.

A Review on Casting Defect Minimization through Simulation

The objective of this paper is to find defects in casting process. Causes for shrinkage defects are discussed and remedies for the shrinkage defect would help to improve the quality of casting product. By proper casting technique, improving feeding design, proper location of ingates and risers will reduce the shrinkage defect. Simulation in software SOFTCAST helps to detect shrinkage defect and using discussed remedies help to reduce rejection rate.

IJERT-Identification of Casting Defects by Computer Simulation -A Review

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2013

https://www.ijert.org/identification-of-casting-defects-by-computer-simulation-a-review https://www.ijert.org/research/identification-of-casting-defects-by-computer-simulation-a-review-IJERTV2IS80436.pdf Most common defect in steel castings is porosity, hotspot, blowholes.As a consequence the porosity formation is very closely studied phenomenon. The investigation described in this paper will examined the porosity formation in the casting component of Housing. In the current environment many casters still use the trial and error approach for process development. The capability to produce sound casting component of high quality of the same time reducing product costs & development times is the most highly challenge for the foundry today. Computer aided modeling plays an important role for the foundry industry for the past several years. Not only with the new design components but also in the redesign of existing products.Simulation gives the observed porosity and it will give the possibility to reduce porosity by changing appropriate gating system, riser design & modification.

Analysis of Casting Defects using Casting Simulation Technique and Using Design of Experiment: A Review

2015

Computer simulation of casting process has emerged as a powerful tool for achieving quality assurance without time consuming trials. Software packages for simulating the solidification of molten metal in the mould enable predicting the location of shrinkage defects and optimizing the design of feeders to improve the yield; more advanced packages perform coupled simulation of mould filling and casting solidification. Simulation is the process of imitating a real phenomenon using a set of mathematical equations implemented in a computer program. In Casting simulation the mould filling and solidification analysis is done by using an algorithm or program based on finite volume method, to identify the hot spots and hence defects like shrinkage, hot tears, cracks, etc. [4]. In casting processes, there are various parameters which works at different levels may influence the casting defects. For each type of defect, several causes have been listed under differing categories such as design, ...

Minimization of the Casting Defects Using Taguchi's Method

This paper is relates with casting defects like pinholes, scabs, sand holes, slag, mould shifting, parting line defects, runner & riser defects which mainly occurs in valve casting in foundry. The research on controlling the casting defects in foundry shop which comes in various check valves-PN 10 and these causes may results the reduction of quality of casting. Here we have studied minimize the casting defects using Taguchi's method through change in various parameters like as pouring temperature, green strength, mould hardness and permeability. These experiments were conducted based on standard acceptable and foundry men experience in this casting organization for casting check valves-PN 10 of various sizes & types Significant changes are taken during controlling the parameters. First we collected the data as casting defects from AV VALVE Pvt Ltd, Agra. Identify The major defects which are scab, cold shut and shrinkage. Complete this task we analyze the cause of this casting defects with the help of fish bone diagram. So we conclude that there are four parameters responsible for these casting defects. 1. Pouring Temperature (o C) 2. Sand Particle Size (AFS) 3.Mould Hardness Number 4. Permeability Number First we define the range of these parameters and then we perform the casting process at different trial and find that average percentage rejection is 6.25 of the casting product. Then we apply the Taguchi's method and use of MINITAB 17 software to find out the optimum solution. These optimum solutions were applied on casting process and the calculated the percentage rejection 4.416 of the products. Thus we could improve 1.25% in casting defects.