Defect Analysis and Optimization of Aluminum Alloy Plunger Pump Shell
In view of casting defects of aluminum alloy plunger pump castings that often occur during production pro-cess,such as shrinkage porosities and holes,the origination of defects was analyzed according to the structural charac-teristics of castings.The casting process was optimized and numerically simulated by AnyCasting software.The results indicate that the casting defects can be totally solved by the optimized scheme for piston pump shell,and produced cast-ings can meet quality requirement.