Casting Handbook. Mold Materials (Volume 4) (Second Edition)

Author: Compiled by the Casting Branch of the China Society of Mechanical Engineering
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's casting industry has achieved significant development, with an annual output exceeding 10 million tons, ranking second in the world. The number of employees exceeds one million, making it the world's largest team of casting professionals. The Casting Handbook is divided into six volumes: Cast Iron, Cast Steel, Cast Non-ferrous Alloys, Molding Materials, Casting Processes, and Special Casting. This book is the fourth volume, Molding Materials. The second edition is a comprehensive revision based on the first edition, updating and improving many technical contents. This volume includes an introduction; raw materials and their properties; molding sand, core sand, and coating materials and their properties; and testing methods for molding materials (Chapter 4). It discusses the development process of molding materials, provides detailed introductions to the sources, properties, and origins of various molding and auxiliary materials, and systematically and comprehensively elaborates on the technical key points, formulations, properties, application examples, and regeneration of binders such as clay sand, sodium silicate sand, oil sand, and synthetic resin sand, as well as coatings for molds (cores). It systematically introduces various testing methods and instruments for molding materials.