Resources related to Solidification, Casting, and Materials Engineering

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

Learn about Materials Science in general (including solidification)

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