Imagine a computer-based design environment where you could work from first scribbling to finished design; moving freely between hand-drawn sketch and formal diagram. Designs are best started with pen and a blank canvas because ambiguity and informality are desirable attributes during initial design. However, finished diagrams need to be formal and rule compliant so that no ambiguity remains. E...

The magnitude and uniformity of the hotface temperature greatly affects the life of continuous casting molds, in addition to affecting surface defects in the product, such as longitudinal cracks. In this work, several different designs for the cooling channels of a beam-blank mold are evaluated using two-dimensional finite-element heat conduction models in order to minimize hotface temperature ...