Science and Engineering of Casting Solidification

✍ Scribed by Doru Michael Stefanescu (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 559
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The 3rd edition of this popular textbook covers current topics in all areas of casting solidification. Partial differential equations and numerical analysis are used extensively throughout the text, with numerous calculation examples, to help the reader in achieving a working knowledge of computational solidification modeling. The features of this new edition include: • new chapters on semi-solid and metal matrix composites solidification • a significantly extended treatment of multiscale modeling of solidification and its applications to commercial alloys • a survey of new topics such as solidification of multicomponent alloys and molecular dynamic modeling • new theories, including a theory on oxide bi-films in the treatment of shrinkage problems • an in-depth treatment of the theoretical aspects of the solidification of the most important commercial alloys including steel, cast iron, aluminum-silicon eutectics, and superalloys • updated tables of material constants.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Length-Scale in Solidification Analysis....Pages 1-5
Thermodynamic Concepts—Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium During Solidification....Pages 7-27
Nucleation and Growth Kinetics—Nanoscale Solidification....Pages 29-59
Fundamentals of Transport Phenomena as Applied to Solidification Processing....Pages 61-65
Diffusive Mass Transport at the Macroscale....Pages 67-88
Diffusive Energy Transport at the Macroscale....Pages 89-117
Momentum Mass Transport at the Macroscale....Pages 119-134
Diffusive Mass Transport at the Microscale; Microsolute Redistribution and Microsegregation....Pages 135-144
Solidification of Single-Phase Alloys; Cells and Dendrites....Pages 145-196
Solidification of Two-Phase Alloys—Micro-Scale Solidification....Pages 197-250
Solidification of Multicomponent Alloys....Pages 251-262
Microshrinkage....Pages 263-281
Rapid Solidification and Amorphous Alloys....Pages 283-294
Semisolid Processing....Pages 295-303
Solidification of Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 305-341
Multiscale Modeling of Solidification....Pages 343-344
Numerical Macroscale Modeling of Solidification....Pages 345-377
Numerical Microscale Modeling of Solidification....Pages 379-434
Solidification of Some Casting Alloys of Commercial Significance....Pages 435-533
Back Matter....Pages 535-556

✦ Subjects

Metallic Materials; Crystallography; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials