THERCAST® Foundry & Ingot Casting PREMIUM module is an up-grade of the ESSENTIAL module. It gives access to all features embedded into the ESSENTIAL module + unrivaled capabilities to perform fully coupled thermal-mechanical and metallurgical analysis. Therefore, casting designers can achieve in-depth studies and get very predictive results in terms of porosities, segregations or defects appearance.
What's inside?
- Interface
- Process setup, results analysis - Materials
- Material database, material creation space, TTT diagram - Physical Analysis
- Metal front, fluid flow, turbulent flow
- Mechanical strength of the sand cores or inserts, elastic or plastic deformation of the pins, risks of wear, penetration phenomena, thermo-mechanical calculations - Defect Prevention
- Hotspots, misruns and cold shuts, air entrapment, ghost lines, porosities, oxide entrainment
- Cracks, hot tearing, solidified thickness, air gaps, oxide entrainment, plastic deformations in hot parts of the mold, piercing
- Mechanical stresses and strains, residual stresses, surface shrinkage, internal shrinkage. - 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 - Metallurgy Analysis
- Micro/Macro segregations, grain growth and orientation
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
- Benefit from coupled of ‘fluid mechanics’ and ‘solid mechanics’ simulation
- Compute complete thermo-mechanical simulation for fine analysis
- Take into account process parameters
- Model dynamic air gaps associated with solidification shrinkage
- 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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