Relationships between process parameters and temperature field of roll casting for wide sheet made of AZ61 magnesium alloy: Finite element method

In recent years, wide sheet made of AZ61 wrought magnesium alloys has been widely studied and applied in industry. Thin roll-casting technology for the new wrought magnesium alloy can provide acceptable quality wide and thin sheet made of AZ61 magnesium alloy. To study the influences of roll-casting process parameters on temperature field for wide and thin sheet made of AZ61 magnesium alloy plates, some simplification and assumptions have been done by characteristics of magnesium alloy. Two-dimensional FEM model for roll-casting has been established along casting direction. Simulations of temperature fields of the plates have been done by using finite element analysis ANSYS software. A series of researches on the temperature distributions under different process parameters (pouring temperature, heat-transfer coefficients and casting speeds) have been done. The simulation results and the literature about the casting process of the relevant theory are the same. The simulation results show that the process parameters of rapid-casting process for AZ61 magnesium alloy are mutual influenced on the temperature fields of wide sheet made of AZ61 magnesium alloy.