Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Metallurgy, Techniques and Design / John Campbell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PREVIEW

Casting Metallurgy

Chapter 1 – The Melt

• Reactions of Melt with its Environment
• Transport of Gases in Melt
• Surface Film Formation
• Vaporisation

Chapter 2 – Entrainment

• Entrainment Defects
  • Bifilms
  • Bubbles
  • Extrinsic Inclusions
• Entrainment Processes
  • Surface Turbulence
  • Oxide Skins from Melt Charge Material
  • Pouring
  • Oxide Lap Defect I: Surface Flooding
  • Oxide Lap Defect II: The Confluence Weld
  • The Oxide Flow Tube
  • Microjetting
  • Bubbles Trails
• Furling and Unfurling
• Deactivation of Entrained Films
• Soluble, Transient Films
• Detrainment
• Evidence for Bifilms
• The Importance of Bifilms
• The Four Common Populations of Bifilms

Chapter 3 – Flow

• Effect of Surface Films on Filling
  • Effective Surface Tension
  • The Rolling Way
  • The Unzipping Way
• Fluidity
  • Fluidity Definition
  • Mode of Solidification
  • Effect of Velocity
  • Effect of Viscosity
  • Effect of Solidification Time
  • Effect of Surface Tension
  • Effect of an Unstable Substrate
  • Comparison of Fluidity Tests
  • Effect of Vibration
• Extended Fluidity
• Continuous Fluidity