Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design

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Brilliant indepth research workVery helpfull in achieving perfection

I'm a metallurgist at a sand casting foundry. I've seen the problems with the conventional system of casting. Although we haven't adopted Campbell's methods wholesale, they make a lot of sense from a theoretical physical metallurgy perspective. The creation of entrainment defects does occur from the interation of metal and air(oxygen). These oxides have a higher melting temperature than metal and are seen in the end result of the casting process. Quality inspection show tears (though these are often a result of thermal stresses, they still need an origin), slag and sand inclusions that a properly designed filling system should be able to avoid.The text focuses primarily on aluminium alloys. Although it often lacks exact specifics, it is overall a very thorough general guide on the theory of the latest research in the field and with some essential recomendations for improvement.