Most of the shrinkage porosity criteria only consider internal thermal conditions, but ignore external conditions, such as pressure. Therefore, to some castings with a relatively high molten metal hydrostatic pressure...Most of the shrinkage porosity criteria only consider internal thermal conditions, but ignore external conditions, such as pressure. Therefore, to some castings with a relatively high molten metal hydrostatic pressure or atmosphere pressure, the shrinkage porosity prediction will not be accurate enough. In order to solve this problem, this work studies and improves a known shrinkage porosity criterion ‘Xue Criterion’. The pressure is introduced into the criterion function and a relationship between ‘Xue Criterion’ and the pressure is established. The modified ‘Xue Criterion’ function can be expressed as p0Gτ/τ. Compared with the previous experimental work, the prediction result from the new shrinkage criterion has a good agreement with the experimental result, and it is more accurate than the original ‘Xue Criterion’.展开更多
文摘Most of the shrinkage porosity criteria only consider internal thermal conditions, but ignore external conditions, such as pressure. Therefore, to some castings with a relatively high molten metal hydrostatic pressure or atmosphere pressure, the shrinkage porosity prediction will not be accurate enough. In order to solve this problem, this work studies and improves a known shrinkage porosity criterion ‘Xue Criterion’. The pressure is introduced into the criterion function and a relationship between ‘Xue Criterion’ and the pressure is established. The modified ‘Xue Criterion’ function can be expressed as p0Gτ/τ. Compared with the previous experimental work, the prediction result from the new shrinkage criterion has a good agreement with the experimental result, and it is more accurate than the original ‘Xue Criterion’.