Advanced Metal Casting Research Center
AMCRC
Advanced Metal Casting Research Center
The Advanced Metal Casting Research Center is industry-institute consortia dedicated to collaborative research in metal processing and manufacturing. Our focus is metal casting and digital manufacturing. We bring fundamental understanding to existing processes, develop new methods, new alloys, and address management-technology interface issues with our industrial partners. AMCRC serves the global foundry industry as its educational and research home.
Our activities and interests are in various aspects of materials processing, properties and characterization. Our research programs aim at constructing a quantitative and predictive understanding of the phenomena underlying the materials development for industrial applications by employing a variety of experimental and computational tools to establish process-structure-property relationships in materials.
Research
Leading-edge research in solidification processing, light metals, nonferrous and ferrous alloys, semisolid processing, additive manufacturing
Members
- Networking globally with the best minds in the industry
- Technical expertise and access to talent
- Integrated design project experiences, internships in industry, collaborative distance learning, on-line courses, and continuing education/retraining
Facilities
Stir Casting Furnace with Vacuum
Squeeze Casting
Centrifugal Casting
Pressure Infiltration
Induction Melting Furnace
Casting Simulation
Foundry 4.0 Student Activity Center
Research Projects
- Surface Alloy Castings
- Surface Composite Castings
- Recycling of Metal Scrap and Industrial Waste
- How to Reduce Scrap in Foundries: Focus on Light Metal Castings