离心浇铸工艺（centrifugal casting process）.doc

离心浇铸工艺（centrifugal casting process） Centrifugal casting 1 Overview Centrifugal casting is a method of casting liquid metal into a rotating mold, filling the mold and solidifying the liquid metal under the action of centrifugal force. In order to realize the above process, centrifugal casting machine must be used to create the condition of casting rotation. There are two types of vertical centrifugal casting machine and horizontal centrifugal casting machine according to the different positions of the rotating shaft. The casting on the vertical centrifugal casting machine revolves around the vertical axis (Fig. 1). It is mainly used to produce annular castings with a height smaller than the diameter, and sometimes the centrifugal casting machine is used for pouring special-shaped castings. The casting of a horizontal centrifugal casting machine revolves around a horizontal shaft (Figure 2). It is used to produce sleeve and tube castings of length greater than the diameter. In centrifugal casting, the liquid metal is filled and solidified in the rotating condition, so the centrifugal casting has some of the following characteristics: 1) the liquid metal can form a hollow cylindrical free surface in the mold, so that the hollow castings can be cast without the core, which greatly simplifies the production process of the sleeve and tube castings; 2) due to the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the liquid metal, can improve the ability of filling metal mold centrifugal casting process, so some poor fluidity of alloy and thin-walled castings can be produced by centrifugal casting; 3) due to the centrifugal force, improve the feeding conditions, gas and nonmetallic inclusions also easily discharged from the liquid metal, so the centrifugal casting organization is compact, the shrinkage hole (Suo Song), porosity, inclusions and other defects less; 4) eliminate or greatly reduce the metal consumption in the gating system and riser; 5) the casting is prone to seg