New Research to Improve Prediction of Physical Changes in Investment Casting Process

摘要

The guesswork of predicting the physical changes that occur during investment casting could soon become a science, according to an ongoing collaborative research project. ProCAST, with the support of the American Foundry Society (AFS) 4-L Investment Casting Committee, recently incorporated a visco-elastic code developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Oak Ridge National Laboratories (ORNL) into its software. The module examines many aspects of the investment casting process, including changes to the wax pattern, the shell and the solidifying molten metal.