CPT International 04/2016
The leading technical journal for the global foundry industry – Das führende Fachmagazin für die weltweite Gießerei-Industrie
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Figure 2: Original (left) and optimized version (right) of the casting layout<br />
Figure 3: The ,Hot-Spot FSTime’ quality criterion shows that the process is not robust (left). ‚Hot-Spot FSTIME‘ after<br />
changing the casting layout (right)<br />
during filling was observed, which led<br />
to a higher risk of sand inclusions.<br />
To also solve this problem, the impact<br />
of an additional overflow and various<br />
geometries for gating and feeding<br />
had to be checked. Through traditional<br />
simulations, this would have resulted<br />
in several versions and a lot of manual<br />
work, but the experts at SSF made<br />
use of the new metho dology of Autonomous<br />
Optimization in MAGMA 5 ,<br />
which played a crucial role in finding<br />
the optimal design (Figures 2 and 3).<br />
The optimization parameters were<br />
parametric geometries for the feed-<br />
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