Manufacturing processes yielding stronger, yet lighter structures are sought for in many industries and scientific applications. Freeze casting is a fabrication process that offers way to achieve these strong, lightweight structures, but only single direction (the of the templating-ice growth). Applying uniform magnetic field allows increased strength an additional direction, thus allowing them...

Steel-making and continuous/mould casting are the key processes of modern iron and steel enterprises. The continuous and mould casting schedule of mixed whole/half charging plan is the bottleneck for the steel-making and continuous/mould casting process. However, it is very difficult to find a solution against the characteristics and complicated environment. This paper proposed a heuristic batc...

Casting is an economical way to manufacture parts. On average, complex aerospace castings incur about one-fourth the cost of forgings. However, castings can not be used as primary structure in aircraft because of poor control over design allowables for the material strength and ductility. They can be used as secondary structure, but must include significant safety factors usually between 3 and ...

This chapter presents the use of the additive manufacturing (AM) method powderbinder-jetting (PBJ) for the generation of molds and cores for casting applications. Theoretical information on process steps and the binding of particles is given. For the based chemistry, examples are presented and the transfer from conventional produc‐ tion processes to powder-binder-jetting is explained. For sand ...