Publications by Vincent Mathier

Two-Phase Modeling of Hot Tearing in Aluminum Alloys: Applications of a Semicoupled Method

Michel Rappaz, Vincent Mathier, Stéphane Vernède

Hot tearing formation in both a classical tensile test and during direct chill (DC) casting of aluminum alloys has been modeled using a semicoupled, two-phase approach. Following a thermal calculation, the deformation of the mushy solid is computed using a ...

2009

A new tensile test for aluminum alloys in the mushy state: Experimental method and numerical modeling

Michel Rappaz, Vincent Mathier, Piero Daniele Grasso

A fairly simple experimental setup has been designed for testing the resistance of the mushy zone of alloys during solidification under tensile conditions. It has been used to study the effect of coalescence among the solid grains at a late stage of solidi ...

2008

Two-phase modelling of hot tearing in aluminium alloys using a semi-coupled method

Vincent Mathier

Hot tearing is one of the most severe defects observed in castings, e.g. in billets or sheet ingots of aluminum alloys produced by DC casting. It is due to both tensile strains and a lack of interdendritic feeding in the mushy zone. In order to predict thi ...

EPFL2007

Two-phase modelling of hot tearing in aluminium alloys using a semi-coupled approach

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Marie Drezet, Vincent Mathier

Hot tearing, one of the most severe defects observed in castings, is due to both tensile stresses and lack of interdendritic liquid feeding in the mushy zone. In order to predict this phenomenon, the two-phase averaged conservation equations for mass and m ...

2007

Towards a Micro-Macro Model of Hot Tearing

Michel Rappaz, Jean-Marie Drezet, Vincent Mathier, Stéphane Vernède

Modelling of hot tearing must encompass several aspects: solidification, percolation of grains, stress/strain development, liquid feeding. The present contribution reviews recent progress made in this domain, both at the macro- and microscopic levels. At t ...

Trans Tech Publications2006