Solidification process and infrared image characteristics of permanent mold castings

Roman Viets; Markus Breuer; Heinz Haferkamp; Thomas Kruessel; Matthias Niemeyer

doi:10.1117/12.342280

19 March 1999 Solidification process and infrared image characteristics of permanent mold castings

Roman Viets, Markus Breuer, Heinz Haferkamp, Thomas Kruessel, Matthias Niemeyer

Proceedings Volume 3700, Thermosense XXI; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342280
Event: AeroSense '99, 1999, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

Interdependence between the development of temperature gradients at the solid-liquid interface during solidification of metals and the formation of local defects demands for thermal investigation. In foundry practice thermocouples are used to control the die's overall cooling-rate, but fluctuations in product quality still occur. Capturing FIR- thermograms after opening the die visualizes the state, when most thermal throughput has already flattened the temperature gradients in the mold. Rapid dissipation of heat from liquid metal to the mold during solidification forces further approach of the process investigation by slowing down the heat flux or the use of transparent mold material. Aluminum gravity casting experiments under technical vacuum conditions lead to decelerated solidification by suppression of convection and image sequences containing explicit characteristics that could be assigned to local shrinkage of the casting. Hence relevant clusters are extracted and thermal profiles are drawn from image series, pointing out correlations between feeding performance from the sink heads and the appearance of local defects. Tracing thermal processes in vacuum casting can scarcely be transferred to image data in foundry practice, since only little analogies exist between atmospheric and vacuum casting. The diagnosis of the casting process requires detection of the still closed mold using a transparent silica- aerogel sheet as part of the die. Hereby thermograms of the initial heat input are recorded by adapting a NIR-camera in addition to the FIR-unit. Thus the entire thermal compensation at the joint face for each casting is visualized. This experimental set-up is used for image sequence analysis related to the intermediate casting phases of mold filling, body formation and solidification shrinkage.

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Roman Viets, Markus Breuer, Heinz Haferkamp, Thomas Kruessel, and Matthias Niemeyer "Solidification process and infrared image characteristics of permanent mold castings", Proc. SPIE 3700, Thermosense XXI, (19 March 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.342280

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