At the user meeting, Marty McLaughlin announced that he recently got a call informing him that he would be deployed by the US Army as part of his obligation to the Army Reserve. The day after the user meeting, this newspaper article was published, leading us to believe that this deployment order was a false alarm.

User Meeting 2004

Well, the 4th annual EKK User Meeting held last month has entered the history books. Highlights from this year's meeting include:

• CAPCAST's pre-processor MESHID has undergone a major overhaul with 3D hardware accelerated graphics fully integrated, enhancements to the analysis setup interfaces, and many other much anticipated requests fulfilled.
• Gerald Backer presented an overview of new and existing fluid boundary conditions that can be used with WRAFTS.
• Chung-Whee Kim talked about the history and current status of using computer simulation for porosity prediction.
• Marty McLaughlin discussed techniques for arriving at an appropriate pressure curve to use with LPDC processes (also to be presented at the AFS congress, see below)

See EKK at the 108th Metalcasting Congress

It's not too late to catch EKK at this year's AFS Metal Casting Congress. EKK will be exhibiting our software and consulting services at this year's combined AFS / NADCA 108th Metalcasting Congress in Rosemont, Illinois June 12-15th. As always, 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 preliminary analysis while you wait! Come see us at booth 304.

Marty McLaughlin will be presenting the paper Accurately Integrating Pressure Curves Into Flow Simulations For Low Pressure Die Casting Analyses on Monday, June 14 at 3:45 pm. The abstract for this paper is in the aluminum division of the AFS Session Schedule.

In addition, Dr. Kim will be participating in a round robin session where he will discuss the "Effects of Heat Transfer Coefficients on Permanent Mold Casting Solidification".  This session is scheduled in the Engineering division on Monday, June 14 at 8:30 am.

Did You Know?

Did you know you can easily calculate the cross sectional area of a FLBDY group for WRAFTS using MESHID with the function Mesh 3D: Ele. Surface Area: by Interface? Just enter the FLBDY GID and the GID of the runner / gating system in the Surface Area by Interface window, and MESHID will calculate the surface area of all elements contacting each other at their interface. This is exactly the same method that WRAFTS uses, so MESHID will give you the same cross sectional area as WRAFTS calculates (just remember that the area that WRAFTS calculates is in cm².

This is especially useful for determining fluid velocities and fill times.

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