The 'black box' of casting: Mold!
What's going on inside?
- ‘No matter what improvement we make, with traditional means or modern casting techniques, the inside of the mold is an unknown. If only we had a pair of glasses, if only we could know what’s going on there…’
- Those who say, ‘Our scrap rates are high, but we did our best, that’s all!’
JSCAST is now one click away with VALANS...
With its comprehensive and reliable results such as flow, cooling and deformation, as well as unique features only found in JSCAST Casting Simulation, the inside of the mold is no longer a black box. You can model the casting process on your computer first, and you can avoid the bad surprises in the foundry from the very beginning.
Metal particles that cool and solidify during agitation during shot sleeve filling and plunger stroke, if uncontrollable, cause casting defects by being trapped in the liquid metal and dragged into the mold cavity. The Cold Flake Entrapment result, which is the explanation for this casting defect in die casting, the cause of which is often not understood, and which is only available in JSCAST, allows you to optimize the shot sleeve filling parameters and prevent casting defects.
In JSCAST, the mold does not have to be fully filled.
Usually, in the final result of mold filling simulations, you will see the entire casting cavity fully filled to aid the solidification process that follows. In JSCAST Casting Simulation, regions that are not actually filled due to trapped air in the mold are not filled in the software either.
With JSCAST, you can determine whether the liquid metal enters the runner gates at the same time, its movement in the mold, its cooling behavior, whether there is a cold shut during filling, the air trapped areas in the mold, the efficiency of the overflows; Knowing the cooling curve of the metal in the solidification process, shrinkage areas, the problems caused by the cooling in the thick areas, the first and last solidifying regions will enable you to be involved and effective in the process, as well as witnessing the miracle of casting.
Taking into account the effect of the 3rd phase together with the cooling lines in High Pressure die casting; In iron casting, JSCAST stands out among its peers as it is a software that simulates core gases, shows sand and slag inclusions, deformation, and detects macro and micro porosities with its feeder analysis capability.
