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Title

Thermal analysis of a bi-metallic chill vent for high pressure die casting

Author(s)

Imran, Mohammad;  Dhaliwal, Rajpreet;  Masood, S. H.

Abstract

High pressure die casting (HPDC) is widely used for manufacturing aluminum parts in automotive industry. In high pressure die casting mold, chill vents are used to allow residual air and gases to exhaust out from the mold cavity. The objective of this paper is to design and develop a bi-metallic chill vent for high pressure die casting using copper alloy material having high thermal conductivity, coated with steel layer on the surface. Transient thermal analysis was carried out using ANSYS software, and temperature distribution was compared with bimetallic and tool steel chill vents. The results show a faster extraction of heat in bi-metallic chill vent than that with steel. This paper also presents the effect of varying internal diameter of cooling channel in chill vent cooling.

Publication type

Journal article

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences. Industrial Research Institute Swinburne

Source

Materials Science Forum: proceedings of the 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing (PRICM-7), Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 02-06 August 2010 / Jian-Feng Nie and Allan Morton (eds.), Vol. 654-656 (2010), pp. 791-794

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

0912 Materials Engineering;  1007 Nanotechnology

Keyword(s)

Chill vent;  Heat transfer;  High pressure die casting;  HPDC;  Moldmax;  Thermal analysis

Publisher

Trans Tech Publications

ISSN

0255-5476

ISBN

9780878492558, 0878492550

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.654-656.791

Copyright

Copyright © 2010 Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.

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