Virtual manufacturing based on through-process modelling becomes an evolving research area which aims at integrating diverse simulation tools to realize computer-aided design, analysis, prototyping and manufacturing. ...Virtual manufacturing based on through-process modelling becomes an evolving research area which aims at integrating diverse simulation tools to realize computer-aided design, analysis, prototyping and manufacturing. Numerical prediction of the as-cast microstructure is an initial and critical step in the whole through-process modelling chain for engineering components. A commercial software package with the capability of calculating important microstructure features for aluminium alloys is used to simulate a G-AlSi7MgCu0.5 laboratory casting. The simulated microstructure, namely grain size, secondary dendrite arm spacing and diverse phase fractions are verified experimentally. Correspondence and discrepancies are reported and discussed.展开更多
基金financially supported by the Austrian Federal Government(in particular from the Bundesministerium für Verkehr,Innovation und Technologie and the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft,Familie und Jugend)the Styrian Provincial Government,represented by sterreichische Forschungsfrderungsgesellschaft mbH+1 种基金by Steirische Wirts chaftsfrderungsgesellschaft mbH,within the research activities of the K2Competence Centre on"Integrated Research in Materials,Processing and Product Engineering"operated by the Materials Center Leoben Forschung GmbH in the framework of the Austrian COMET Competence Centre Programme
文摘Virtual manufacturing based on through-process modelling becomes an evolving research area which aims at integrating diverse simulation tools to realize computer-aided design, analysis, prototyping and manufacturing. Numerical prediction of the as-cast microstructure is an initial and critical step in the whole through-process modelling chain for engineering components. A commercial software package with the capability of calculating important microstructure features for aluminium alloys is used to simulate a G-AlSi7MgCu0.5 laboratory casting. The simulated microstructure, namely grain size, secondary dendrite arm spacing and diverse phase fractions are verified experimentally. Correspondence and discrepancies are reported and discussed.
