The couple of advanced Thermal Analysis and casting simulation to predict the component’s soundness directly on the pouring line and before the shake out. The Kasandra® method

The use of powerful computers has led to develop complex simulation solidification software’s based on the use of Chorinov rules. Despite this huge advance in the knowledge of solidification phenomena, the problem has not been solved completely. Some remaining residual soundness scrap appear randomly after production, increasing to an expensive unitary control to detect the castings that do not fulfill the quality requirements. This extra control generates a lack of productivity, extra cost, etc.

The use of commercial solidification software’s cannot predict the variations on metallurgical quality during production. This is the reason by which unexpected microshrinkages appear in some castings originating an extra unitary control. With the aim to solve this important problem, a new tool has been developed, coupling the thermal evolution and the measurement of metallurgical quality in the production line, giving an instantaneous status about castings soundness.