Study the Effect of Ingate Area on Mechanical Properties of As Cast (AL-0.4%Cu) Using ANN

Abstract

In the present work the effect of Ingate Area on the Mechanical properties (σmax, σyield, E and hardness, stiffness) of as cast Al-4%Cu alloy had been studied, molds were made by sand casting with different ingate area (1cm×1cm, 1.2cm×1.2cm, 1.4cm×1.4cm, 1.6cm×1.6cm, 1.8cm×1.8cm, 2cm×2cm,  2.2cm×2.2cm, 2.4cm×2.4cm and  2.6cm×2.6cm). The process was done in  normal condition (T=25Cᵒ, dry sand, constant  speed, constant pour distance), while the casts  prepared for the testing as a work piece to get  the results. Also, Artificial Neural Network  (ANN) had been adopted to predict the values  of outputs (mechanical properties) and getting  the mathematical equations that describe the relations between input and outputs  parameters. From the results of the proposed  work it conclude that mechanical properties  magnitudes had been increased due to increasing in ingate area cast, and the relations  between the ingate area and mechanical properties) had been detected depending on the  results that gotten from ANN.