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68th WORLD FOUNDRY CONGRESS
Chennai Trade Centre, Nandambakkam, Chennai, India

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World Foundry Congress Speakers

Oral Presentation

Plenary 

 The Bifilm Concept: Prospects of defect-free castings.
 J Campbell
 Global Metalcasting Report: Aluminum, Ductile Iron Gaining in Global Market
 Alfred Spada
 The Green Foundry
 Mats Holmgren and Peter Nayström
 Energy savings and carbon credits: Opportunities and challenges for Indian foundry industry
 S H Arjunwadhar, Prosanto Pal and Girish Sethi
 Six Sigma Project Selection in Foundry Industry
 Dr.Hathibelagal M Roshan
 Current situation and future of Chinese foundry industry
 Guo jingjie, Su Shifang, Li Xinzhong, Liu Xiuling and Zhang Zhenghe
 High Conductivity Copper Castings
 P. Sriram, K.V.U. Praveen and Ch. Visweswara Rao
 Hand-casting Toy Soldiers in White Metal (Foundry Basics and a lot of fun)
 Africo N. Serra
 Enhancing competitiveness of European SME iron foundries by full customer service concept fitting together local production and outsourcing
 Harri Nordlund, Tanja Saarelainen, Olavi Piha, Juhani Orkas, Petri Makkonen, and Eero Nini

Austempered Iron 

 Austempering of Cast Irons – Developments, Properties and Applications
 J R Keough and K L Hayrynen
 Research about Ausforming Austempered Ductile Iron
 Carmen Dumitru, Nicolae Dumitru, Cornelia Neagoe, Nicoleta Costache and Emma Dragon
 Development of Austempered Ductile Iron for High Tensile and Fracture toughness by Two Step Austempering Process.
 Ravishankar K.S, K. Rajendra Udupa and P. Prasad Rao
 Effect of ‘NP’ Factor on the dry sliding wear characteristics of Austempered Ductile Iron
 Dr.N.D.Prasanna, Dr.M.K.Muralidhara and Dr.K.Radhakrishna

Composites 

 The effect of temperature on the tensile strength of 20 vol% short fiber (85% Al2O3 – 15% SiO2) reinforced secondary S9G1GT6 aluminum alloy composite produced by indirect squeeze casting process
 K Chinnathambi, R M Pillai and A Janagan
 Aluminium Based In-situ Composites
 B.S. Murty and S. Kumar
 Processing and Characterization of Functionally Graded Aluminum Alloys and Composites by Centrifugal Casting
 T.P.D. Rajan, R.M. Pillai and B.C. Pai
 Wear Behaviour of Gamma Alumina Particle Reinforced Al-4% Mg Alloy Cast Composites.
 S.R.P. Singh and P.T. Pushp
 Resistance Spot Welding of High Strength In-situ Al-TiC Metal Matrix Composites
 Ram Naresh Rai, G. L Datta and M. Chakraborty
 Selectively reinforced squeeze cast pistons
 Dr R Mahadevan and R. Gopal

Die Casting and Mg Alloys 

 Velocity control of die-casting plunger considering air entrainment
 Ken’ichi Yano, Kotaro Hiramitsu, Takahiro Fukui, Shigeru Yamamoto and Seishi Nishido
 Optimum Design of Slot Shape for Preventing the Misrun of an Aluminum Motor Rotor in Die Casting
 Sung-Mo Lee, Won-Jae Lee and Byung-Youn Moon
 Die-casting end-of-fill and drop forge viscometer flow transients examined with a coupled-motion numerical model
 Amol Palekar, Andrei Starobin and Alexander Reikher

Ductile Iron 

 Compacted Graphite Iron – A Material Solution for Modern Diesel Engine Cylinder Blocks and Heads
 Dr Steve Dawson
 Dross in Ductile Iron: Source, Formation and Explanation
 Martin Gagné, Marie-Pierre Paquin and Pierre-Marie Cabanne
 Development of a new generation of Highly Exothermic Spot Feeders for Ductile Iron Castings
 I. N. Delaney
 An Overview of CANMET’s R&D Activities on Thin-Wall Ductile Iron Castings
 A. Javaid, M. Sahoo, C. Labrecque and M. Gagné
 Optimizing the Properties of Thin Wall Austempered Ductile Iron
 Mohamed M. Mourad, Khaled M. Ibrahim Mervat M. Ibrahim and Adel A. Nofal
 Undercooling, nodule count and carbides in thin walled ductile cast iron
 K.M. Pedersen and N.S. Tiedje
 Experimental analysis of flow of ductile cast iron in stream lined gating systems
 Søren Skov-Hansen, Nick R. Green and Niels Skat Tiedje

Moulding Process 

 Novel Creation and Control of Sand Mold Press Casting “Post-Filled Formed Casting Process”
 Kazuhiko Terashima, Yoshiyuki Noda, Kimikazu Kaneto, Kazuhiro Ota, Kunihiro Hashimoto, Junichi Iwasaki, Yutaka Hagata, Makio Suzuki and Yuji Suzuki
 Optimum Press Control of Innovative Greensand Mold Press Casting Method Considering the Molten Metal’s Pressure Suppression
 Ryosuke Tasaki, Yoshiyuki Noda, Kazuhiko Terashima and Kunihiro Hashimoto
 Green Sand Management – Role & Application of Carbonaceous Additives and Concept of total Carbon in a Green Sand System
 Deepak Chowdhary
 New innovative solutions for foundries by inorganic concepts
 Jens Müller and Reinhard Stötzel
 Moulding and Core – Methods and Material High Efficiency, Low Cost Moulding with Data Retrieval
 Chris Wilding
 The Resole - CO2 Process Carbophen® Binders
 Klaus Löchte
 Study on Binder System of CO2 Cured Phenol-Formaldehyde Resin Used in Foundry
 Weihua Liu, Yingmin Li, Xueliang Qu and Xiuling Liu
 Demolition and quick relining of a 4t Coreless Automatic Pouring furnace
 A. Vezzuli

Aluminium 

 Optimization by Taguchi design method of manufacturing condition for semi-solid Al-Zn-Mg alloy
 Sung Yong Shim, Dae Hwan Kim, In Shup Ahn and Su Gun Lim
 The Influence of Fe-impurity, Sr-modification and Porosity on the mechanical properties and Fatigue Behaviour of Cast Al-7Si-0.3Mg alloy
 M.Ravi, P.Sivagnanapalani, Albesvanduke, K.K.Ravikumar, S.G.K.Pillai, K.Sukumaran and M.C.Shaji
 Critical Material Issues in Cast Aluminium Cylinder Heads
 Yucel Birol and Ali Aslan Ebrinç
 Grain Refinement of Light Alloys
 T.R. Ramachandran, P.K. Sharma and K. Balasubramanian
 A New Cost Effective Alternative for the Rotary Degassing of Aluminium Alloys
 M.S. Gittus, D.T. Whincup and A.M. Wynn

Steel and Alloys 

 Feeding of Hollow Cylindrical Castings
 P.K.Sandell
 Hydrogen In Steel & its Removal from Melt
 M.K.Mukhopadhyay
 Application of Computer Simulation on Large Size Steam Turbine Casing
 J.Y. Lee, W.J. Jeong, Y. H. Yim and J.H. Lee
 Double oxide film defects in Ni-based superalloy castings
 Huang Aihua
 Global Climate Change and Role for Foundry
 Satish Agarwal and Sachin Agarwal

ERP and Costing 

 Enhanced throughputs in foundries by constraints based planning methodology using a special ERP
 Vijay Singh and V.G.S.Mani
 Resource savings by optimising process conditions in foundries
 Niels Skat Tiedje, Christian Drivsholm, Søren Skov-Hansen and Rudolf Crepaz
 ERP IN FOUNDRIES – Towards Optimized Cast Production with Order-Driven DES
 J Kollanus, M. Nieminen and J Orkas
 Part, Tooling and Method Optimisation Driven by Castability Analysis and Cost Model
 Dr. B. Ravi, Durgesh Joshi and Kamalesh Singh

Liquid Metal Handling 

 Real-Time Estimation Method of Liquid’s Outflow Rate by Nonlinear Observer for Tilting-Type Automatic Pouring of Casting Process
 Yoshiyuki Noda, Yusuke Matsuo, Kazuhiko Terashima
 Tools for measurement and control of metal treatment processes in iron foundries
 Bill Simmons
 High Efficiency Preconditioning of Electrically Melted Grey Cast Irons
 Riposan, M. Chisamera, S. Stan, P. Toboc, C. Ecob and G. Grasmo
 Development of Planar Flow Casting Atomization Process for Metal Powder Production
 Li Rongde, Xiang Qingchun, Dong Fuyu
 Metal Quality Management – Measurement Techniques, Evaluation of Results and Process Implementation
 Stefan Schormann and Phil Enright

Casting Simulation 

 Application of Differential Quadrature Method to solving Fourier – Kirchhoff equation
 Pawel Zak, Janusz Lelito and J.S. Suchy
 Effect of core materials on solidification time and pattern in steel castings
 S. P. Bulusu, N. Seetharamu and T. Sundararajan
 More energy efficient casting without loss of output
 Petter Solding
 Modeling and Optimization of Rotary Furnace Parameters using Regression and Numerical Techniques
 Ranjit Singh, Gurumukh Das and Ratan Kumar Jain

Tooling/Modeling and Measurement Techniques 

 The selection of methods and materials through thermal analysis
 John Hughes
 The Influence of Modulus and Composition on the Cooling Curve and Latent Heat of Ductile Irons
 O. Sen and N.G. Kinikoglu
 The New Method for Fast Testing Surface Tension of Liquid Alloy and its Application in Foundry Production
 LI Da-yong, SHI De-quan and WANG Li-hua
 Water Analogue Modelling of Entrainment Phenomena during the Filling of Bottom and Side Gating Systems
 Rafael Cuesta, David Losúa, Antonio Maroto and Jorge Martín

Iron and Alloys 

 Iron castings Advanced prediction tools, foundry process control and knowledge management
 A. Zabala Uriarte, R. Suarez Creo and J. Izaga Maguregi
 Development of Low Cost Corrosion Resistant Fe-Cr-Mn-Cu White Cast Irons
 Prof. C.P. Sharma and Prof. A.K. Bhargava
 Characteristic of semi-solid cast iron fabricated by cooling plate
 Tae Hoon Kim, Jin Woo Kang, In shup Ahn and Su Gun Lim
 Establishment of the Prediction Method of Shrinkage Defects for the Cast Iron Cylinder Frame
 H.T. Lee and S.M. Lee

Investment Castings 

 From 7 days to 7 hours – Investment casting parts within the shortest time
 Michael Kügelgen

 Poster Presentation

Aluminium 

 Analysis of residual stress in sand cast and die cast Al alloy by X-ray diffractrometry
 P. Prabhakara Rao, Dr. G. Chakravarthy, Dr. A.C.S. Kumar and B. Balakrishna
 Manufacturing, Mechanical Properties and Microstructural Studies on Quartz particulate reinforced Aluminium-11.8% Silicon alloy matrix composite castings processed in a permanent metallic grey cast iron mold by vortex mixing method
 Dr Thoguluva Raghavan Vijayaram
 Preparation and characterization of Al-Ti-B-Sr master alloy for the combined effect of grain refinement and modification of 413 alloy
 S.M. Jigajinni and S.A. Kori
 Effect of Low Frequency Mechanical Vibration on the Microstructure of Al- 12% Silicon alloy casting.
 V.S. Mudakappanavar and Dr. K. Radhakrishna
 Simulation of hetero-phase system solidification as in an example AZ91/SiC composite
 Janusz Lelito, Pawel Zak and J.S. Suchy
 Emerging new technologies in Aluminium Castings
 L.B. Singh
 Effect of Mould Vibration and Heat Treatment Parameters on Mechanical Properties of Cast Al-Si-Mg Alloys
 N H S Swamy, Dr.M A Joseph, Dr. N M Nagarajan, Dr. M K Muralidhar and Dr. H Sundaramurthy
 Degassing of aluminium alloys by electric current (plasma) treatment
 Anjan Prodhan
 Vacuum Sealed Molding Process of High Strength Aluminum Alloy Casting
 Akihiko Nagasaka, Masahiro Kawajiri, Ikuo Hukai, Shuichi Yamamoto and Nakamura Kazuhiro
 Constitutional undercooling and growth of globuletic particle
 Shankargoud Nyamannavar, M. Ravi and K. Narayan Prabhu

Casting Simulation 

 Rapid Prototyping, an emerging field in foundry
 RM Meenakshi Sundaram
 Design of Aluminium Die Castings by computer simulation
 Dr.S.Shamasundar, Manjunath. K, Ganesh Babu, B.M. Sachin, N Takeda and K Morita

Copper 

 Case Hardening of copper castings for better alternative material for marine Applications
 Prof. S.K. Paknikar

Die Casting & Mg Alloy 

 Compressive Properties of AZ91 and AZ31 Mg Alloy Foams at Different Foaming Conditions
 Chang-Hwan SEO, Hwan-Goo Seong, Yeong-Hwan Song and Bo-Young Hur

ERP & Casting 

 U.S. Metalcasting: Competing in a Global Economy
 Thomas Prucha and Alfred Spada
 Development of an fuzzy-logic intelligent system for the selection of most viable and economic casting method
 G.Sutradhar, S.Thomas and B.Oraon

Investment Casting  

 Near-net shape investment casting the use of naphthalene pattern
 John. V. Panikulam
 Implementation of investment casting
 Arun Kumar Bose

Iron & Alloys 

 A case for use of cupola in cast iron foundries, energy conservation and global warming considerations.
 Dr. V.P. Gupta
 Application of information technology for rejection analysis in cast iron foundries
 M.Arasu and Dr.R.Gandhinathan

Liquid Metal Handling 

 Modeling and Optimization of Rotary Furnace Parameters using Regression and Numerical Techniques
 Ranjit Singh, Gurumukh Das, Ratan Kumar Jain
 Water Modeling Studies of Bottom-pouring Ladle Operations
 S Kuyucak
 Liquid sintering with re-usable former, cold pull technique for coreless induction furnaces
 M.K. Jackson, Debaprasad Choudhuri and Jerome Soudier
 Successful New Developments in Induction Melting Technology
 F. Donsbach and D. Trauzeddel

Moulding Process 

 Applied Research on the Clustering Analysis for Foundry Raw Sands
 Jiang Yixiang, Wei Xiaowei, Luan daocheng, and Xie Xuxiang
 Cast Products and Mould Designer Skills at the European Context – CAE DS
 T Höök, T Tiainen and K Bako
 The changing face of refractory coatings in India
 Paul Siddy
 People skills and casting industry-study on Coimbatore region
 J. Selvaraj and N.Vivek
 Low Pressure Vertical Greensand Process
 Niels W. Rasmussen
 Vertical and Horizontal – Myths eradicated
 Surendra Kaul
 Easy steps for effective green sand preparation and controls for iron castings
 A.R. Krishnamoorthy
 Intelligent Riser Systems-From natural risers to the dynamic riser-system BKS
 A.S Lüngen
 High Carbon - The Road to a solvent-free Cold Box Binder System
 Günter Weicker and Dr. Jens Müller
 Starting Advantage with Simulation-Based Intelligent Feeder Design
 E. Jacob, M. Manoj and R. Sasikumar

Tooling / Modelling 

 Six Sigma Tools in the Analyze Phase of Foundry Projects
 Dr. Hathibelagal M Roshan
 Nitriding is the best surface hardening technology for tools & dies
 V. Parthasarathy