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THERCAST® is a 3D finite-element software for foundry processes, continuous casting and ingot casting processes.
The software makes it possible to quickly and accurately analyze your manufacturing process, from the initial casting to the end of solidification. Thus, you anticipate manufacturing defects allowing you to produce high-quality components and reduce the prototyping phase.
In extremely competitive and ever-changing markets, simulation is now an essential step in the development cycle of high-value cast parts.
THERCAST® offers a complete and modular solution which will be able to provide you with valuable support for the production of ingots, castings or even continuous casting.
THERCAST® is your partner at every stage of your activity:
Thanks to a better understanding of physical phenomena, THERCAST® guarantees the feasibility of the part and limits non-quality costs by detecting casting defaults upstream.
THERCAST® also supports you in your engineering choices, in order to meet the needs expressed by your customers but also in a continuous improvement approach by optimizing existing productions.
Finally, choosing THERCAST® means capitalizing on your know-how within your company.
KEY ADVANTAGES TO OUTPERFORM YOUR COMPETITION
• Calculation ‘by slice’ to reduce computation time
• For fine analysis, a complete thermo-mechanical calculation over the entire metallurgical length
• Control of the liquid fraction zone and the position of the liquid well
• Anticipation of solidified thickness in primary and secondary cooling areas to avoid bulging defects or risks of piercing
• Assessment of the rate of deformation required to ensure the sealing of porosities
• For a better understanding of defects, the calculation of ‘fluid mechanics’ and ‘solid mechanics ‘ is coupled
"As a Transvalor partner for over 15 years, we knew first-hand their technical and software customized support is unmatched and recently added THERCAST® to our portfolio to support our new steel shop’s need for state-of-the-art installation. Anyone in the steelmaking and forging industry knows that with any new product or software implementation, a new and unique set of challenges arise. From issues with materials data information to modeling customizations to understanding the complex interaction of thermal coefficients that are at play during the ingot casting simulation, the Transvalor Americas team was there to provide us with step-by-step instructions and tackle any and all challenges. The more we use and gain experience with THERCAST®, the more we can visualize the potential possibilities. "
Roberto Ramirez, Simulation Engineer at FRISA
THERCAST® integrates liquid/solid thermomechanical coupling involved in material transformation. With this implementation, you can study all types of phenomena: ladle and tundish flow, primary and secondary cooling, deformation in contact with rollers and spray-induced cooling.
THERCAST® offers a multilingual graphical interface and a business-oriented work environment. The software includes simulation templates with object lists or predefined process parameters. You can customize these models to fit your fabrications and your in-house terminology.
THERCAST® offers a graphical module dedicated to the material specifications representing the thermo-physical data and the associated laws of behavior. From the materials module, manually adjust the curves of the material parameters on the graph.
Use the periodic table of elements to create the macro-microsegregation data for your custom alloy or import the material datasheets from software based on the CALPHAD method.
With THERCAST®, enjoy features that facilitate analysis, interpretation and dissemination of results such as ’Custom Actions’ to display in a single click your most important or most common results (e.g. metal front, porosity, etc.) or saving your workspace to obtain the same visual environment next time you run the software. Thus, the setup and result analysis steps are greatly facilitated.
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Custom actions available in THERCAST® software
Transvalor offers a wide range of software to simulate the entire manufacturing chain.
Start by simulating ingot casting in THERCAST® and continue your analysis in FORGE® to study open-die forging and control the rate of porosity closure. With SIMHEAT® software, you can also simulate heat treatments applied to the castings.
Transvalor’s ’End-to-End’ solution ensures perfect interoperability between its software applications with simple, fast data transfer and no loss of results accuracy.
Common processes simulated with THERCAST® are low and high pressure die casting, sand casting, shell mold gravity casting, centrifugal casting, tilt casting, investment casting, and lost foam. Predict, qualify, and quantify defects in the final part with the most accurate software available on the market. Mistakes are made on the computer only, not in production.
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Tubacex aims to optimize the production of high-quality austenitic stainless-steel round bars by selecting between forging and blooming manufacturing routes for a new ingot design that enhances productivity while meeting strict requirements for porosity, strain, and other metallurgical factors.
Tubacex used THERCAST® to simulate and validate a new ingot design (AC68), optimizing casting parameters and assessing porosity risks, then evaluated forging and blooming via FORGE® simulations, concluding that forging offers superior porosity closure, stress distribution, and microstructural homogeneity, despite exceeding equipment load limits, while blooming remains within load capacity but yields more heterogeneous results.
