Experimental analysis on generic principles for developing robust designs against casting defects

Abstract

The world is running around invention and advancements in the existing products or components, and this wasn’t be easy without design concepts and its principles. This paper is conferring on this facet, how the design can be made robust against manufacturing flaws by varying the parameters such as material properties, dimensions, shapes etc. If a design engineer compels a mistake while designing a product, results in the following aspects: confidence, business, customers, sales, servicers, repute etc. If we modify the design, and make it robust, some or all of these losses will be recouped., It is not an easy task to discuss all manufacturing capabilities in one go, to have a lucidity in the concept the flaws of manufacturing during casting were focused in this paper. Based on the theoretical study and experiment analysis conducted on a casting “+” model the results are outlined. Based on the output, a list of generic design principles was defined, which can be considered by a design engineer during casting design process. The paper starts with a brief introduction to robust design, followed by a literature review, then design solutions, computer simulation analysis of a casting component (using Solid Works) and finally the conclusions made from the results.