This text covers most aspects of casting. It deals with the principles behindmodern casting with applications incorporated for both ferrous and nonferrousmetals... » 

This text covers most aspects of casting. It deals with the principles behindmodern casting with applications incorporated for both ferrous and nonferrousmetals. The text consists of 11 chapters Chapters 12 presents a shortintroductory survey methods and equipment. Chapters 36 describe thetheoretical basis behind modern casting processes in foundries and cost houses. Chapters 711 have a more practical approach to the casting of variousmetals. The principles derived in the earlier chapters are applied to teach thereader how various problems can be designed in an optimal way according to thepresent knowledge of casting science. Due to the importance of steel and ironbased alloys a good deal of the content is devoted to these alloys but theprinciples and phenomena are general. Most chapters contain several solvedexamples and at the end of chapters 311 aa selection of exercises is given.The answers to all of the exercises are listed at the end of the book. Anaccompanying Guide to exercises provides complete solutions to all of theexercises step by step. The solutions in the Guide are designed to encouragethe students to work on their own i.e. the idea is help to selfhelp toachieve increased understanding of the topic. The Guide can be downloaded inPDF format from www.wiley.com. This extensive book offer materials for severalcourses on different aspects of the subject with the option of varying thelevel of the courses. It is appropriate for undergraduate as well as mastersstudents in materials technology as well as for students in mechanicalengineering with some knowledge of materials processing. This text can be usedby PhD students and researcher in material science who are working withproblems connected to casting processing. «