Casting Process - Classification, characteristics of sand casting processes, metal mould casting processes and casting processes using other mould/core materials, Pattern materials, types of patterns, Mould and core making materials and their characteristics. The features of casting problem; a survey and scope of foundry industry
Casting Design Issues and Practices - Casting Design and Processes -Modeling of Casting and Solidification Processing - Solidification of pure metals and al1oys; nucleation and growth in alloys; solidification of actual castings; progressive and directional solidification; centre in feeding resistance; rate of solidification, electrical analog of solidification problems
Process Design - Pattern design - Riser Design - Gating Design - Design for Economical Sand Molding - Design for Economical Coring – Moulding and Core Making Processing
Design Problems Involving - Thin Sections - Design Problems Involving Uniform Sections - Design Problems Involving Unequal Sections - Design Problems Involving Junctions - Design Problems Involving Distortion
Corrosion of Cast Irons - Corrosion of Cast Carbon and Low-Alloy Steels - Corrosion of Cast Stainless Steels - Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Cast Irons - Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Cast Steels - Fatigue and Fracture Properties of Aluminum -Alloy Castings - Friction and Wear of Cast Irons - Friction and Wear of Aluminum-Silicon Alloys - Failure Analysis of Castings . Inspection of Castings.
Reference Book:
1. Fundamentals of Metal casting, Flinn, Addison Wesley. 2. Principles of Metal casting, Heine, Loper & Rosenthal,McGraw Hill. 3. Product Design and Process Engineering Practice, Niebel & Draper, Salmon & Simons, McGraw Hill Foundry, Issac Pitaman 4. Casting properties of metals and alloys - V. Korolkove. 5. Metal casting-B.Ravi-PHI
Text Book:
1. Scrope Kalpakjian, “Manufacturing processes for Engineering Materials”, Addision, Wesley, 1997. 2. Fundamentals of metal casting technology - P.C. Mukherjee, Oxford and IBH.
