Energy

FORGE® is successfully used by various players of the energy sector. A large range of components can be simulated including rotors, forged shafts, pinions and gears, but also seamless tubes for the oil and gas sector and rolled rings for the wind sector.

For open-die forging, the software has unique functionalities to simulate processes such as upsetting, cogging, etc., and for seamless tubes it simulates hot rolling with mandrel. FORGE® has  a two-mesh algorithm to significantly reduce computation time for processes with incremental deformation.

Thanks to a ‘Multi Pass File’, all the movements of the part imposed by the manipulators, displacements and rotations, can easily be setup, and the simulation of all the steps is handled in a unique launch.

THERCAST® is perfectly suited to the requirements of foundries involved in the energy sector whatever the metal used (steel, stainless steel, grey cast iron, lamellar graphite cast iron, ductile cast iron, etc.). The software simulates all types of casting technologies including sand casting, shell mold gravity casting, centrifugal casting, which are generally recommended for the manufacture of large parts such as valve bodies for the oil and offshore sector.

THERCAST® also has many specific functionalities for ingot casting such as the prediction of air gaps or voids and the simulation of exothermic powders. Air gaps dynamic detection is essential because this phenomenon can be the cause of many internal or surface defects. 

One of the key advantage of THERCAST® is its ability to simulate each step of your casting process and then offer the complete simulation from the casting to the forging. This is achieved thanks to a coupling between the 2 Transvalor’s codes, THERCAST® and FORGE® which share the same architecture and data management. Results at the end of the casting process can be tracked during the subsequent forging operations. Thus, you can follow the segregations evolution and the porosities closing rate to decide the best manufacturing process according to the open-die forging or ring rolling sequences.

Transvalor offers its SIMHEAT® simulation solution dedicated to heat treatment for a wide range of metal alloys. For massive or large parts, the heat treatment stage is overriding to ensure the expected mechanical properties while controlling distortion phenomena.
SIMHEAT® makes it possible to address both heat treatments in the mass (quenching, annealing, tempering, etc.) and surface heat treatments (carburizing, nitriding, etc.).

Transvalor offers an industrial solution to simulate the microstructure evolution during hot deformation processes at the meso-scale, i.e. at the scale of the grain.

DIGIMU® works on Representative Elementary Volume (REV) and it generates digital polycrystalline microstructure representative of heterogeneities of the material. It is based on a full field approach to simulate local and homogeneous phenomena that cannot be captured by higher order models.