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Campbell, an international figure in the castings industry and the originator of the Cosworth Casting Process and the newly emerging Alotech Casting Process, brings his now classic first edition up to date with new information on surface turbulence and bifilms. Emphasizing the role of the liquid metal in controlling the properties of cast materials, 11 chapters cover the entire casting process-from the melt to solidification and contraction-as well as structure, defects, and properties of the finished casting, processing, and environmental interactions. He intends to follow this volume with two more: one outlining his ten rules for the manufacture of good castings, and the other providing a comparative study of casting processes. This second edition should prove useful for practicing foundry engineers and casting designers as well as graduate students in the metallurgy and foundry fields.
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Castings Castings John Campbell OBE FREng Professor of Casting Technology, University of Birmingham, UK U T T E R W O R T H E I N E M A N N OXFORD AMSTERDAM SAN DIEGO BOSTON SAN FRANCISCO LONDON SINGAPORE NEW YORK SYDNEY PARIS TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 22 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 1991 Paperback edition 1993 Reprinted 1993, 1995 (twice), 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 Second edition 2003 Copyright 0 1991, 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of th