Investment Casting

✍ Scribed by Philip R. Beeley, Robert F. Smart

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 499
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This modern book on investment casting fills a substantial gap in the literature of metal founding. The investment casting sector of the foundry industry has seen rapid growth; despite this the literature devoted specially to investment casting and its products has remained relatively sparse. Investment Casting has been produced by drawing upon the knowledge of authorities within or closely associated with the industry, in co-operation with the British Investment Casting Trade Association, examining the process and its products in a way which is useful both to the industry and to design engineers. To this end the earlier chapters are devoted to each of the main production stages from tooling to finishing, with health and safety treated separately, commensurate with its current importance.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Editors and Authors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Tooling
3. Pattern Technology
4. Investment Materials and Ceramic Shell Manufacture
5. Melting and Casting
6. Gating and Feeding Investment Castings
7. Finishing Investment Castings
8. Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation
9. Defects and Non-Destructive Testing
10. Metallurgical Aspects: Structure Control
11. Design for Investment Casting
12. Review of Applications
12.1 Application to Aerospace
12.2 General Applications of Investment Castings
12.3 Jewellery Investment Casting
12.4 Investment Casting in Surgery and Dentistry
Index