Aluminum permanent mold handbook

• Corporate Author: American Foundry Society
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Schaumburg, Ill. : American Foundry Society, 2001.
• Subjects: Molding (Founding) > Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Aluminum > Metallurgy.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781523119530; 1523119535; 0874332508; 9780874332506
• Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations

Table of Contents:

• Section I. Melting and molten aluminum processing.
• Selection of alloys
• Furnaces and their maintenance
• Molten metal processing and control
• Section II. Permanent mold casting processes. Permanent mold casting process and equipment
• Tilt pour casting process
• Low-pressure casting process
• Centrifugal casting process
• Squeeze casting process
• Semi-solid metal casting: production perspective
• Appendix to Semi-solid metals processing: research perspectives
• Section III. Mold design, construction and operation. Component design for permanent molding
• Selection of mold materials
• Mold design
• Tooling and equipment maintenance
• Section IV. Process control. Computer simulation
• General principles of gating and risering
• Quality control of the permanent mold process
• Troubleshooting.