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    Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design
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    Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design
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    Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design

    By John Campbell

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    About this ebook

    Complete Casting Handbook is the result of a long-awaited update, consolidation and expansion of expert John Campbell’s market-leading casting books into one essential resource for metallurgists and foundry professionals who design, specify or manufacture metal castings.

    The first single-volume guide to cover modern principles and processes in such breadth and depth whilst retaining a clear, practical focus, it includes:

    • A logical, two-part structure, breaking the contents down into casting metallurgy and casting manufacture
    • Established, must-have information, such as Campbell’s ‘10 Rules’ for successful casting manufacture
    • New chapters on filling system design, melting, molding, and controlled solidification techniques, plus extended coverage of a new approach to casting metallurgy

    Providing in-depth casting knowledge and process know-how, from the noteworthy career of an industry-leading authority, Complete Casting Handbook delivers the expert advice needed to help you make successful and profitable castings.

    • Long-awaited update, consolidation and expansion of expert John Campbell’s market-leading casting books into one essential handbook
    • Separated into two parts, casting metallurgy and casting manufacture, with extended coverage of casting alloys and new chapters on filling system design, melting, moulding and controlled solidification techniques to compliment the renowned Campbell ‘10 Rules’
    • Delivers the expert advice that engineers need to make successful and profitable casting decisions
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateJul 20, 2011
    ISBN9780080964232
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    Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design
    Author

    John Campbell

    John Campbell OBE is a leading international figure in the castings industry, with over four decades of experience. He is the originator of the Cosworth Casting Process, the pre-eminent production process for automobile cylinder heads and blocks. He is also co-inventor of both the Baxi Casting Process (now owned by Alcoa) developed in the UK, and the newly emerging Alotech Casting Process in the USA. He is Professor Emeritus of Casting Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

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    • 4/5
      While I disagree with the author on several of his theories, the book is well written and thought provoking. I think anyone in the metalcasting industry should consider having this in their collection.
    • 5/5
      Which of his theories do you disagree with all4metals_1?

      Just curious.