The THERCAST® module foundry and ingot casting ESSENTIAL provides a complete solution for controlling your manufacturing process, developing innovative or complex cast products and reducing time to market.
The ESSENTIAL module is dedicated to process engineers looking for quick, reliable answers at any stage of the development cycle. Thanks to fluid flow and thermal analysis capabilities, you feel confident in dealing with all kinds of issues during filling or solidification.
What's inside?
- Interface
- Process setup, results analysis - Materials
- Material database, material creation space, TTT diagram - Physical Analysis
- Metal front, fluid flow, turbulent flow - Defect Prevention
- Hotspots, misruns and cold shuts, air entrapment, ghost lines, porosities, oxide entrainment - Interactions with the external Environment
- Self-radiation, temperature evolution on mold, mold warm-up, exothermic powder impact, interaction with the mold, coating, filters that impact shrinkage porosities, open shrinkage, liquid fraction zone and position of the liquid well, ghost lines in the mold
Dedicated templates
- Sand casting
- Gravity die casting
- Low-pressure die casting
- High-pressure die casting
- Centrifugal casting
- Tilt casting
- Investment casting
- Bottom pouring for ingot casting
- Top pouring for ingot casting
- Tundish
Key advantages
- All processes
- Take into account process parameters
- Detect defects such as shrinkage, distribution of inclusions
- Take into account exothermic powder and its possible deformation
- Define all technological factors such as the presence of refractory materials or coating
- Benefit from part- and mold-coupled thermo-mechanical resolution to anticipate mold deformation and breakage - Foundry Casting
- Benefit from a shell creator and simulation of thermal behavior with coupled radiation to obtain accurate results
- Benefit from the optimized feeder management - Ingot Casting
- Manage all interactions between the metal and the wall of the ingot mold, the slag and the mold flux
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