With THERCAST®, you build the solution that is right for you thanks to our module structure. Whether you are a small company seeking the essential information or an enterprise business needing to address many varied casting processes while monitoring a budget, THERCAST® is the solution for you.
Now more than ever, manufacturers are understanding the need for metal casting process optimization.
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As a Transvalor partner for over 15 years, we knew first-hand their technical and software customized support is unmatched and recently added THERCAST® to our portfolio to support our new steel shop’s need for state-of-the-art installation.
Anyone in the steelmaking and forging industry knows that with any new product or software implementation, a new and unique set of challenges arise. From issues with materials data information to modeling customizations to understanding the complex interaction of thermal coefficients that are at play during the ingot casting simulation, the Transvalor Americas team was there to provide us with step-by-step instructions and tackle any and all challenges.
The more we use and gain experience with THERCAST®, the more we can visualize the potential possibilities.
Roberto Ramirez, Simulation Engineer at FRISA
Sand casting is the most versatile casting process, allowing for any size and shape of castable products, limited to small series and expensive parts. Designers must get it right the first time, more than any other process, because of the cost of wasting a single part. THERCAST® is perfectly suited to simulate this process with a variety of sand available in the database, taking into consideration any element of the assembly from sand mold, inserts, cores, to gating. Users test out and optimize the design and process parameters to produce a defect-free part. THERCAST® provides results including filling, solidification, porosities, air entrapment, and residual stresses.
THERCAST® allows users to precisely set the process parameters as they would be done in production. Set the pressure to apply on the liquid metal, set the filling rate as well as the opening and clamping of the molds for the low pressure die casting. Model the ladle and tilting of the ladle to fill up the shot chamber, set the speed of the pin for the high-pressure die casting.
The temperature evolution in the molds is calculated, and cycles can be set to estimate the working molds temperature after a number of parts.
THERCAST® simulates this process through an automatic generation of the shell (no need for the CAD design of the shell), and allowing thermal self-radiation between parts and within the part, considering view factors such as shadowing effects. Users quantify the thermal effect on the solidification of each part of the tree or network.
Horizontal centrifugal casting is mostly used to cast pipes with great quality since the impurities and other undesirable defects are “pushed” toward the Inner Diameter (ID) of the pipe, which is machined subsequently.
Vertical centrifugal casting is used for high-end, high-quality casted parts with defect-free final product. Cavities and air pockets are “pushed” toward the ID, which is then machined.
THERCAST® is the world leading, and proven 3D simulation solution for ingot casting processes. More than 20 years of experience and development with market leaders such as Arcelor Mittal, Ascometal, Aubert & Duval have made THERCAST® the most reliable and most recognized solution on the market.
What makes THERCAST® truly different is its unique solver. THERCAST® uses a full 3D thermo-mechanical solver. THERCAST® resolves physics equations from liquid to solid at the same increment, allowing for interactions of all physics phenomena in real time. In short, fully coupled simulation provides best and most accurate results.
THERCAST® is also an excellent educational tool to understand the influence of each component (exothermic powder, pouring rate, molds and hot top designs) on the solidification, and final ingot properties (porosities, macro-segregation, residual stresses).
THERCAST® is also an excellent educational tool to understand how a caster works and production challenges.
It is the complete solution for the analysis of your continuous casting process. It covers the Tundish down to the end of the secondary cooling zone. In addition, together with our solid material forming solution FORGE®, Transvalor offers the only seamless solution on the market for the analysis of the full process from Tundish to finished rolled product.
