T. Lis, K. Nowacki, K. Łakomy Silesian University of Technology, Department of Production Engineering, Katowice, Poland In the European Union one of the most important activities is the recovery and recycling of waste including foundry waste. In the article waste arising from production of iron casting was presented. Selected physic-chemical properties of iron-bearing waste were defined. Opport...

The specification of an aluminum alloy for a cast component is based upon the mechanical properties it can achieve. For the designer and purchaser, it is vital to understand that the properties obtained from one particular combination of casting alloy, foundry practice and thermal treatment may not be identical to those achieved with the same alloy in a different foundry or with a different the...

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This paper presents a virtual foundry environment that can be accessed over Internet by design and manufacturing engineers, for preliminary process planning of cast components. The plans are automatically generated by case based reasoning using the nearest neighbor algorithm. An interactive facility is also provided for handling entirely new cases that do not have matching cases in the database...

The production volume of metals and their alloys, taking into account the current demand for materials containing steel, cast iron, non-ferrous will continue to increase in near future [...]