EKK, Inc. Newsletter - March/April 2003
We have chosen May 8th as the date for this year's user meeting. On this date we invite our current users to visit us at our office in Walled Lake, Michigan to meet other users, share success stories, and make suggestions for future software improvements. We will also make our team available to any user who wishes to stay an extra day (May 7th or May 9th) for a more personal workshop. We look forward to this opportunity to get together with a majority of our users to discuss our software services.
Please let us know if you plan to attend by April 30, 2003.
EKK will be exhibiting our software and consulting services at the AFS Casting Congress in Milwaukee on April 26-29, 2003. Stop by and talk to us in person - both Marty and Dr. Kim will be attending the entire show. If you are interested in a free impromptu demonstration of our software, we encourage you to bring CAD of a design (preferably STL format) and we can create a mesh and perform a 'quick and dirty' analysis while you wait!
At the March 11, 2003 Central New York NADCA Chapter Meeting in Batavia New York, Marty will discuss how to use EKK software to improve the die casting process. Along with trapped gas analysis, Marty will discuss the integration of shot sleeve motion into filling simulation to improve overall accuracy of fluid flow results.
At the February 12th 2003 Quarterly Review Meeting of the USCAR Structural Cast Magnesium Development project, two presentations demonstrated correlations between our analysis results and laboratory tests. The first was "Quantitative Microstructure Analysis of AM50 High Pressure Die Cast GOR Casting" by Arun M. Gokhale of Georgia Tech. It contained images from our analyses of a HPDC Magnesium GOR casting with locations of predicted mechanical defects, coupled with quantitative metallography results that closely matched our predictions. The second presentation was "Quality Assurance: Nondestructive Evaluation and Process Monitoring Sensors" by Jim Prindiville of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This presentation contained images from our analyses of the same part showing good correlation with radiographic tests measuring magnesium oxide inclusions. If you are a USCAR member, please contact Don Penrod for these presentation materials.
If you haven't visited in a while, please stop by http://www.ekkinc.com. We've done some work on making our site easier to navigate. We hope you appreciate this new format.
We recently completed a tutorial for performing a shot sleeve analysis. This tutorial outlines the procedure of creating the shot sleeve and boundary conditions on an existing HPDC model, setting up the fluid flow analysis, and post-processing the results. Please contact EKK if you would like to view this tutorial.
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