Increasing use of aluminum shape castings in automotive and aerospace industries has drawn great attention to fatigue properties of cast aluminum components. The fatigue resistance of aluminum castings strongly depends upon the presence of casting flaws and characteristics of microstructural constituents. The existence of casting flaws significantly reduces fatigue crack initiation life. In the...

A feasibility study of the partial squeeze and vacuum die casting process was performed to make defect-free casting products with excellent mechanical properties. The trial die casting process in this study was industrially implemented for producing a reaction shaft support made of a hyper eutectic Al±15%Si alloy. To combine the squeezing and vacuum effect, the plunger injection system was desi...

This paper considers a ray-casting point-in polyhedron test. Although it is conceptually the simple extension of a well-known point-in-polygon ray-casting algorithm, various practical problems appear in 3D, especially, when the boundary of a geometric object is represented as a triangulated surface. When a larger number of points have to be tested regarding their positions on the considered geo...

Nozzle clogging is a serious productivity and quality problem in continuous casting. This work reviews the causes, effects, and solutions to clogging in continuous casting nozzles. The results of a one-dimensional, steady state analysis of the heat loss from the molten steel stream through the nozzle wall are discussed. The analyses show that steel may freeze within the clog matrix for a relati...

The importance of smooth mould filling in the foundry casting process has been recognized for a long time. More uniform the filling process is, the better the quality of the casting of the products produced. Successful computer simulations can help to reduce the number of trials and cut down the lead time in the design of new casting products by better understanding the complex mechanisms and i...

A mathematical model of heat transfer in continuous casting copper slabs capable of producing experimental data has been constructed and validated against experimental data provided by the management of Copper Refineries Ltd., Townsville plant in Australia. It has been used to predict the effects of major casting variables; metal temperature, casting speed and metal conductivity. The results ca...

Issues such as hand and tracker jitter negatively affect user performance with 3D selection techniques based on the ray-casting metaphor. This makes it difficult for users to select objects that have a small visible area, since small targets require high levels of precision. We introduce an approach to address this issue that uses progressive refinement of the set of selectable objects to reduc...

The use of aluminum alloys are of significant use in industry. Studying of design parameters of such products is important as not much work has been done for optimizing it. The generic formulation involves the flow, velocity, continuity fluid dynamics and shape related issues. The time for filling the mould and shape factor also play major role in performance of the casting process. In this pap...

Molten metal meniscus profile and mold flux channel width were measured under high frequency magnetic field by model experiments, then the dynamic pressure in mold flux channel were calculated during one mold oscillation period. It is found that the high frequency magnetic field can decrease the dynamic pressure greatly, which may be one mechanism of improving the billets surface quality by the...