Patent ID: 7299163
Filing Date: 2007-11-20
Classification: G05B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A design-aiding device for designing a casting product, the device comprising: analyzing means for analyzing solidification process based on temperature change of a melted material of the casting product in elapse of time in a three-dimensional model that corresponds to the casting product and is formed of a plurality of cells; computing means for computing cell shrinkage porosity occurrence rates of the cells in the three-dimensional model from a result by the analyzing means with an equation where a temperature gradient of the melted material is divided by a square root of a cooling rate of the melted material; converting means for stratifying the cell shrinkage porosity occurrence rates computed by the computing means and for converting the cell shrinkage porosity occurrence rates to specific gravity values; quantifying means for quantifying a region shrinkage porosity occurrence rate of a region that is to be evaluated regarding the region shrinkage porosity occurrence rate, by computing a volume with respect to each of the specific gravity values converted by the converting means, multiplying the computed volume by each of the specific gravity values to obtain a product, and then summing up, to obtain a sum, all the products corresponding to all the specific gravity values included in the region, the quantifying means quantifying the region shrinkage porosity occurrence rate as a region specific gravity value by dividing the sum by a volume of the region; and outputting means for outputting the region specific gravity value; critical value setting means for setting a critical specific gravity value; and determining means for determining whether the region specific gravity value is not greater than the critical specific gravity value set by the critical value setting means, and advising changing design when the region specific gravity value is determined to be not greater than the critical specific gravity value.