• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.246-253
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• 1998

Precision metal mold casting process is a casting method manufacturing mechanical elements with high precision, having heavy/light alloys as casting materials and using permanent mold. To improve dimensional accuracy and the final mechanical properties of the castings, the solidification speed and the cooling rate of the casting should be controlled with the optimum mold cooling system, and moreover, to obtain more accurate control of the whole process interfacial heat transfer characteristic at the mold/casting interface must be studied in advance. In the present study, aluminum alloy casting system with metal mold equipped with electrical heating elements and water cooling system was designed and the temperature histories at points inside the metal mold were measured during the casting process. The heat transfer phenomena at the mold/casting interface was characterized by the heat flux between solidifying casting metal and metal mold, and the heat flux history was obtained using inverse heat conduction method. The effect of mold cooling condition upon the heat flux profile was examined, and the analysis shows that the heat flux value has its maximum at the beginning of the process.

• Journal of Korea Foundry Society
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.146-150
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• 2020

In general, hot metal castings contract and molds expand during the cooling step of a casting process. Therefore, it is important to consider both the casting and mold at the same time in a casting process analysis. For a more accurate analysis that includes the contact characteristics, matching each node of the casting and mold in the contact area is recommended. However, it is very difficult to match the nodes of the casting and the mold when generating elements due to the geometric problem of CAD model data. The present study proposes a mesh generation technique that considers mechanical contact between the casting and the mold in a casting analysis (finite element analysis). The technique focuses on the fact that the mold surrounds the casting. After generating the 3D elements for the casting, the surface elements of the casting in contact with the mold are projected inside the mold to create contact elements that coincide with the contact surface of the casting. It was confirmed that high-quality contact element information and a 3D element net can be automatically generated by the method proposed in this study.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.1371-1379
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• 2003

RP&M (Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing) is the most appropriate technology for the small-lot production system, because the production cycle is getting shorter owing to various needs of the consumer. In this paper, rapid tooling technology is applied to the casting process. The casting process has the ability to reflect complicated shapes in one process. But it has not been widely used to make a die and mold because of the poor surface quality caused by air bubbles on the surface of the casting product. In this study, the porous casting mold is fabricated from a mixture of plaster and water-soluble binder. The porous casting mold can improve the characteristics of casting products with the help of the vacuum sealed casting process. The vacuum sealed casting process is an advanced technology that removes the air bubbles between the porous casting mould and the liquid metal, thus making the surface of the casting product finer. The purpose of this paper is to develop a high quality shoe mold using porous casting mold and to apply the RP&M technology to the shoe industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.77-83
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• 1998

This study is object to thermal analysis of continuous casting mold. A two-dimensional transient finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution and stress behavior for continuous casting mold. For thermal analysis using analysis result from FEM code. In other to thermal analysis of continuous casting mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition re considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.287-292
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• 1999

This study is object to thermal analysis of continuous casting nickel-coated mold. A two-dimensional transient finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution and stress behavior for continuous casting nickel-coated mold. For thermal analysis using analysis result from FEM code. In other to thermal analysis of continuous casting nickel-coated mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition are considered.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.43-49
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• 1999

This study is object to thermal analysis of continuous casting mold. A two-dimensional transient finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution and stress behavior for continuous casting mold. For thermal analysis using analysis result from FEM code. In order to thermal analysis of continuous casting mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition are considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.281-286
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• 1999

This study is object to structural analysis of continuous casting mold. A two-dimensional finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution, stress and strain behavior for continuous casting mold. For structural analysis using thermal analysis result from FEM code. In other to structural analysis of continuous casting mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition are considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.181-187
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• 2000

This study is object to structural analysis comparison of continuous casting mold. A two-dimensional finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution, thermal stress and thermal strain behavior for continuous casting mold. For structural analysis using thermal analysis result from ANSYS. In other to structural analysis of continuous casting mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition are considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.200-205
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• 2000

This study is object to thermal analysis comparison of continuous casting mold. A two-dimensional transient finite element model was developed to compute the temperature distribution for continuous casting mold. For thermal analysis using analysis result from ANSYS. In other to thermal analysis of continuous casting mold, many variables such as casting speed, cooling condition, film coefficient, convection and load condition are considered.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.16 no.5 s.98
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• pp.98-103
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• 1999

The application field of porous mold is more and more expended. A mixture of alumina and cast iron is used for making porous mold using slip and vacuum casting method in this study. Slip casting is a process that slurry is poured into silicon rubber mold, dried in vacuum oven, debinded and sintered in furnace, In this procedure, slurry is composed of powder, binder, dispersion agent, and water. Vacuum casting is a technique for removing air bubbles existed in the slurry under vacuum condition. Since ceramics has a tendency of over-shrinkage after sintering, cast iron is used to compensate dimensional change. The results shows that sintering temperature has a great effect on characteristics of alumina-cast iron composite sintered parts. Finally ceramic-metal composite sintered mold can be used for aluminum alloy casting of shoe mold using this process.