Resources related to Solidification, Casting, and Materials Engineering

Learn about solidification (from Matter web site in the UK)

Watch some movies of solidification of real metals (by Ragnvald H. Mathiesen of NTNU in Norway)

Software

• SOLIDCast by Finite Solutions
• MAGMASoft (Germany) or (USA)
• Casting Simulation software by ESI Group
• FLOW-3D from Flow Science Inc
• CASTech
• Calcom
• RaPiD/CAST from CTC
• CAPCAST from EKK
• Alphacast Software
• Sim-Cast Software
• Thermo-Calc
• JMatPro by Thermotech

Professional Organizations

• Steel Founders Society of America (SFSA)
• American Foundry Society (AFS)
• AFSearch (searching the AFS library)
• TMS
• ASM International
• Materials Research Society
• AISI Steel Works
• American National Standards Institute
• NCEMT
• North American Die Casting Association
• ATI
• SteelNet Home Page
• The American Metalcasting Consortium (AMC)
• Cast Metal Coalition (CMC)

Miscellaneous

• WPI Advanced Casting Research Center
• Metal Casting Center at UNI
• Case Metal Casting Laboratory
• UAB Casting Engineering Laboratory
• Solidification Science at Ames Laboratory in Ames, IA
• Penn State Metalcasting
• Mathis Plapp in France
• Alain Karma at NEU
• CTCMS at NIST
• ACCESS Materials Science at the RWTH Aachen, Germany
• Metal Casting at Auburn University
• G. Faivre and S. Akamatsu, Paris, France
• Dynamics and Pattern Formation at UIUC
• UC Irvine/R.Rangel
• Swansea Casting Group
• Vaughan Voller at U Minnesota
• Center for Iron and Steel Research at Carnegie Mellon (lots of good links)
• Research Group Polyphase Solidification at DLR/Space Simulation (lots of good links)
• Michel Rappaz's Simulation Group at EPFL
• NIST Solidification
• Materials and Process Simulation Center at CalTech
• Solidification Lab/Jonathan A. Dantzig at UIUC
• RPI-NASA IDGE Home Page
• MIT Materials Process Modelling Group
• Purdue University Solidification Heat Transfer Lab, S.V.Garimella
• Gustav Amberg at KTH
• Giesserei-Institut (Foundry Institute) at the RWTH Aachen, Germany