ProCAST Includes Analysis Updates from Metals to Flow

By DE Editors

ProCAST 2006, the latest version of the finite-element software package for foundry simulation from ESI Group (Chicago, IL) has hit the market. The ProCAST solutions include automatic mesh generation, thermal analysis with radiation effects, flow analysis for mold filling, fully coupled thermal, flow and stress analysis, and advanced metallurgical options.

There are greatly improved meshing times for models due to the use of Geomesh, the ESI Group tool for geometry analysis and repair whose interface allows the use of major industrial native CAD files formats. 

Parallel processing of mold filling and solidification was already included in the previous ProCAST release. With this new ProCAST 2006 version, the stress module is now fully parallelized, allowing the complete casting process to be simulated in hours.

For the cast iron industry, ProCAST 2006 can predict porosity by taking into account graphite expansion phenomenon in nodular cast iron.

In addition to ProCAST, ESI Group's casting portfolio includes CALCOSOFT, for modeling of continuous casting processes, and PAM-QUIKCAST, the finite difference solution for casting process evaluation. For more information, visit esi-group.com.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.