The Fluidity of Molten

Metal
Fluidity or known as Castability is a quality of the molten metal to flow
and fill the mould cavity.
Fluidity is, in casting terminology, the distance to which a metal, when
cast at a given temperature, will flow in a given test mould before it is
stopped by solidification.
Viscosity
Viscosity on fluid express force that we need to move a layer
from area unit to velocity unit with parallel.
Viscosity is a capacity of a liquid to transmit into shear stress
dinamic.
Measurement of Fluidity

This measurement is based on the analog condition of the metal in

casting.
Fluidity measurement is done as the distance that has been
passed by the molten metal in a standardized closed channel
system before the flow stops.
The parameter in this measurement called Flow Time or Fluid
Life.
 Traditionally fluidity has been measured in a spiral cast. The
rationale behind this is clearly the desire to compress the fluidity
test into as small a cast as possible, and that the flow distance
is sensitive to levelling errors, and that these are minimized by
the spiral path of the liquid.

Various models are designed to get standard conditions and

one of the way is by designing a reservoir system to adjust the
pressure head and make casting equipment with a constant
velocity to ensure the streaming of metals to in a system with
the same velocity.
Fluidity Test of liquid metal in vacuum
condition
This test is the closest approach to the complete standard test with
the Vacuum Fluidity Test by Ragone, Adams and Taylor.
Using this tool, molten metal flows through the tube fine glass under
the influence of suction from the vacuum condition.
Parameter that influence Fluidity
Temperature
The most dominant factor is the first temperature of the molten
metal.
Many researchers show that the fluidity of alloys realated with
superheat (heating above liquid temperature but still in the liquid
phase).
It shows that the superheat determines the quantity of heat to be
absorbed before freezing.
The effect of superheat on the fluidity of
pure metals and alloys
(Sb:stibium/antimonium, Sn: Stannum/tin)
Composition (Chemical composition of
metal)
A valid comparison of the fluidity of various alloys can be made at a
constant superheat temperature but under these conditions a certain
relationship arises between the alloy and fluidity.
High fluidity is commonly present in pure liquid metals or with
eutectic composition.
An alloy that forms a solid solution usually has a long freezing range
that it tends to have a low fluidity.
Relationship between composition and
fluidity of lead-tin alloys
Liquid metal freezing mode in the
Plane Interface Mode flow channel
Liquid metal freezing mode Jagged
Interface Mode flow channel
Liquid metal freezing mode Independent
Crystallization Mode flow channel