Numerical Optimization of the Method of Cooling of a Massive Casting of Ductile Cast-Iron

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The numerical models of the temperature field of solidifying castings, according to various authors, have been observing two main goals ? directed solidification as the basic assumption for the healthiness of a casting and the optimization of the technology while maintaining the optimal product properties. The achievement of these goals is conditioned by the ability to analyze and, successively, to control the effect of the deciding factors, which either characterize the process or accompany it. An original application of ANSYS simulated the forming of the temperature field of a massive casting from ductile cast-iron during the application various methods of its cooling using steel chills. The numerical model managed to optimize more than one method of cooling but, in addition to that, provided serious results for the successive model of structural and chemical heterogeneity, and so it also contributes to influencing the pouring structure. The file containing the acquired results from both models, as well as from their organic unification, brings new and, simultaneously, remarkable findings of causal relationships between the structural and chemical heterogeneity (i.e. between the sizes of the spheroids of graphite, the cells, density of the spheroids of graphite, etc.) and the local solidification time in any point of the casting. The determined relations therefore enable the prediction of the face density of the spheroids of graphite in dependence on the local solidification time. The calculated temperature field of a two-ton 500x500x1000 mm casting of ductile cast-iron with various methods of cooling has successfully been compared with temperatures obtained experimentally. The casting was cast in sand mould. The calculated model of the kinetics of the temperature field of the casting was verified during casting with temperature measurements in selected points.This has created a tool for the optimization of the structure with an even distribution of the spheroids of graphite in such a way so as to minimize the occurrence of degenerated shapes of graphite, which happens to be one of the conditions for achieving good mechanical properties of castings of ductile cast-iron.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• INTRODUCTION
• NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE TEMPERATURE FIELD
• NUMERICAL MODEL OF THE CHEMICAL AND STRUCTURALHETEROGENEITY
• EVALUATION OF RESULTS
• DISCUSSION
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES