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A Pore-Centric Model for Combined Shrinkage and Gas Porosity in Alloy Solidification

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A unified model has been developed for combined gas- and shrinkage-induced pore formation during solidification of metal alloys. The model is based on a pore-centric approach, in which the temporal evolution of the pore radius is calculated as a function of cooling rate, thermal gradient, gas diffusion, and shrinkage. It accounts for the effect of porosity formation on the liquid velocity within the mushy zone. Simulations for an aluminum alloy show that the porosity transitions smoothly from shrinkage-induced to gas-induced as the Niyama value is increased. A Blake (cavitation) instability is observed to occur when the porosity is both gas- and shrinkage-driven. A revised dimensionless Niyama curve for pure shrinkage is presented. The experimentally observed gas porosity trend that the pore volume decreases with increasing cooling rate is well predicted. The pore-centric formulation allows the present model to be solved locally, at any point in a casting, during a regular casting simulation.

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, USA

    Vahid Khalajzadeh, Kent D. Carlson & Christoph Beckermann

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Khalajzadeh, V., Carlson, K.D., Backman, D.G. et al. A Pore-Centric Model for Combined Shrinkage and Gas Porosity in Alloy Solidification. Metall Mater Trans A 48, 1797–1816 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-016-3940-6

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