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In this April 2010 Newsletter:
NADCA Design Seminar
Ribbing
HyperCast Materials
Die Casting Top of Sweet Design
NADCA Design Seminar
Would you like to learn more about the advantages of
die casting so you can select it when it best fits you product design? Scheduling a NADCA
Design seminar on-site at your company is one of the best ways to increase your knowledge
of die casting for all stages of a product design lifecycle. The seminar covers topics from
development, design, specification, purchasing to manufacturing. Learn more about having a
NADCA Design Seminar at your company by visiting: www.diecastingdesign.org/seminars/
Ribbing
No, not the grief that you give the person in the cubical
next to you... the ribs you add to a part to increase strength using less mass. Being an
additive manufacturing process die casting allows ribs to be easily integrated into your
next die cast product design. Ribs may also assist in providing metal flow to difficult to
fill areas. Although just like ribbing your cubical neighbor ribbing can be over applied.
To learn more about ribs for die casting designs please visit:
www.diecastingdesign.org/design/basic/ribs/
HyperCast Materials
The new NADCA HyperCast program is currently underway to help lower the
costs of implementing aluminum and magnesium metal matrix composites in future die cast product designs. Metal
matrix composites (MMC) combine the properties of metals and ceramics into one material. Traditionally the
mixing of ceramic particles into metals has been difficult and costly. HyperCast technology allows for the
introduction of ceramic particles into a molten metal just before it is cast allowing for a significant cost
reduction over previous methods. This technology takes advantage of highly exothermic reactions to rapidly
create ceramic particles in the aluminum or magnesium melt. Although the focus of this project will be on
light weighting vehicles, other design applications are sure to emerge. For more information on the HyperCast
project please visit:
www.diecasting.org/research/hypercast/
Die Casting Top of Sweet Design
Did you know that every time you use a sugar shaker like the one shown
here that you are taking advantage of the properties a die casting has to offer? Designer Henry
Keck designed this iconic sugar shaker in 1955 and utilized a die cast top to meet his design criteria,
to find out the history behind this design and the reasons die casting was selected visit:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/home_blog/2010/03/back-story-the-men-behind-a-sweet-design-.html
