Melting and Casting

Course content

Foundry sands, green sand concept, quartz-clay interface, clay-clay interface, Quartz-clay-water interface. Moulding mixtures, additives core concept; oil bonded cores. CO2 process, cold setting, core making. Casting processes; sand casting, die casting, centrifugal casting, investment casting, other processes. Melting methods, melting furnaces. Melting of cast iron in cupola. Non-ferrous industrial alloys; Al-alloy Cu-alloy, other non-ferrous alloys. Steel casting processes.