Casting Technology
Session #1 ● Monday, June 8 ● 08:00 – 12:00
Modeling: The Marriage of Experimentation and Simulation
KEYNOTE: Jonathan Dantzig, USAMeeting Future Challenges in Shape Casting Process Simulation
KEYNOTE: Marc Schneider, GermanyFrom Conception to Mechanical Properties Optimization – Effect of the Microstructure and Defects on Thermomechanical Calculations During Casting and Heat Treatmen
INVITED: Mark Samonds, USA
Coupling and Multi-physics Phenomena
Session #2 ● Monday, June 8 ● 15:00 – 19:00
Coupling In-situ Observations and Microscale Modeling to Predict Pore and Fe rich Intermetallic Formation during the Solidification of Al-Si-Cu-Fe Alloys
KEYNOTE: Peter D. Lee, UKExplicit Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Finite-Element Model of Continuous Casting of Steel in Funnel Molds
INVITED: Brian Thomas, USA
Numerical Methods / Segregation
Session #3 ● Tuesday, June 9 ● 08:00 – 12:00
Cellular Automata, Granular Dynamics or Discrete Element Models of Solidification: Which Model for which Application?
KEYNOTE: Michel Rappaz, Switzerland
Defect Formation
Session #4 ● Wednesday, June 10 ● 08:00 – 12:00
Simulation of Deformation and Hot Tear Formation Using a Visco-Plastic Model with Damage
KEYNOTE: Christoph Beckermann, USAA 3D Granular Model of Equiaxed-Granular Solidification
INVITED: Andre Phillion, Switzerland
Numerical Methods / Model Validation
Session #5 ● Thursday, June 11 ● 08:00 – 12:00
Ab Initio Predictions of Interfacial Heat Flows During the High Speed Thin Strip Casting of Metals and Alloys
KEYNOTE: Rod Guthrie, CanadaSolidification Path of Al-Fe-Mn-Si Aluminium Alloys
INVITED: Jacques Lacaze, France
Fluid Flow and Mould Filling
Session #6 ● Friday, June 12 ● 08:00 – 12:00
Improvement of Mold Filling Simulation
KEYNOTE: Itsuo Ohnaka, JapanComputational Methods for Mold Filling Simulation of Semi-Solid Alloys
INVITED: Jean-François Hétu, Canada
Micro and Macrostructure Formation
Session #7 ● Saturday, June 13 ● 08:00 – 12:00
An Inverse Growth Restriction Model for Predicting Solidified Grain Size
KEYNOTE: David StJohn, AustraliaThermoelectric Effects on Alloy Solidification Microstructure
INVITED: Koulis Pericleous, UK
Welding
Session #8 ● Saturday, June 13 ● 16:00 – 18:00
New Numerical Technologies for the Simulation of Arc Welding Processes
KEYNOTE: Michel Bellet, France