Portale di Ateneo - En.Unibs.it

The course will follow these topics:
- Solidification: fundaments of nucleation and growth;
- Melting and holding furnaces;
- Cores formation: process and plants, materials and problems (hot box, cold box, warm box, shell moulding);
- Sand casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Lost foam: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Lost wax: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Investment casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Gravity or chill casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Low pressure die-casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- High pressure die-casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Centrifugal casting: process and plants, materials and problems;
- Unidirectional solidification and single crystal solidification;
- Innovative techniques (squeeze casting, rheocasting, thixocasting, vacuum..)
- Simulation of foundry processes: practical exercises by using fem software to simulate die filling and casting solidification.