Metallurgy, design and manufacturing of cast components

• Design cast components
• Select the right combination material and process for manufacture of cast components
• Describe how design and casting process determine final properties of a cast component
• Use fundamental models to analyse the physical and chemical processes that take place when metals solidify
• Use fundamental mathematical models to analyse the thermal and physical processes that take place in metal and mould in the casting process
• Carry out simple analytical modelling/analysis of heat transfer in castings
• Be able to dimension feeding and gating systems for castings
• Analyse castings and describe the physical phenomena that leads to defects in castings
• Use process modelling software to analyse casting processes

Lectures: Casting and welding metallurgy – nucleation and solidification, formation of microstructures and heat treatment; Process technology – important casting processes, calculation of gating and feeding sytems, desing of lay-outs; Heat transfer – simple analytical solutions, Chvorinovs rule, casting in permanent moulds; Design of castings – tolerances, dimensioning, complex geometries, die and pattern design.
Exercises: are closely related to the lectures and gives the students an opportunity to learn some of the fundamental issues that are dealt with in the theory.

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Lectures and exercises.