1Research Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032
2Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata-700032
Manufacturing of sound casting is the main aim for foundry men. To achieve this number of trial casting has carried out on the shop floor and one repetition can take up a week or more, which affects the regular production. 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. Casting simulation process can able to overcome these problems. It has observed that various type of simulation software has used in foundry, out of which FEM and VEM based casting simulations are widely used in foundry. In the present paper, a benchmark model has considered to study the solidification behavior of aluminium alloy (LM6) and detection of hot spots in castings with the help of mentioned above casting simulation softwares. The simulated results also compared with the experimental works.
Sand castings, Mold filling, solidification, Hotspot and Simulation
