Modeling the Investment Casting Process: Some Preliminary Results from the UK Research Program 'Fundamentals of Investment Casting' (FOCAST)

摘要

The research programme "Fundamentals of Investment Casting" (FOCAST) has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in Great Britain at the Net Shape Laboratory of the IRC in the University of Birmingham. This paper presents some initial results from the research in the areas modeling of wax injection, de-waxing and casting.