Prepared by
Dr. Ashraf Kamal Eessaa
Assistant Professor, Mechanical
Department
Canadian International College
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Casting Defects
• Metal casters try to produce perfect castings.
• Scrap meetings are held daily. Managers of all the major departments
attend these meetings. They gather castings that have been identified as
scrap by inspector. The defect is circled with chalk. An effort is made to
analyze the cause of the defect, and the manager whose department was
responsible for it is directed to take corrective action to eliminate that
specific defect in future castings.
• Possible Causes
• Damage to the casting while hot due to rough handling or excessive
temperature at shakeout.
• Remedies
• Care in shakeout and in handling the casting while it is still hot;
• Sufficient cooling of the casting in the mold;
• For metallic molds; delay knockout, assure mold alignment, use
ejector pins
• Remedies
• Increase mold temperature;
• Lower the pouring temperature;
• Modify gate size and location (for permanent molding by
gravity or low pressure);
• Tilt the mold during pouring;
• In die casting: vapor blast or sand blast mold surfaces which
are perpendicular, or nearly perpendicular, to the mold
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parting line.
Incomplete Casting
• Possible Causes
• Insufficient quantity of liquid metal in the ladle;
• Premature interruption of pouring due to workman’s error.
• Remedies
• Have sufficient metal in the ladle to fill the mold;
• Check the gating system;
• Instruct pouring crew and supervise pouring practice.
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Incorrect Dimensions or Shape
• Distorted casting. Inadequate thickness, extending
over large areas of the cope or drag surfaces at the time
the mold is rammed.
• Possible Causes
• Rigidity of the pattern or pattern plate is not sufficient to
withstand the ramming pressure applied to the sand. The
result is an elastic deformation of the pattern and a
corresponding, permanent deformation of the mold
cavity. In diagnosing the condition, the compare the
surfaces of the pattern with those of the mold itself.
• Remedy
• Assure adequate rigidity of patterns and pattern plates,
especially when squeeze pressures are being increased.
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Inclusions or Structural Anomalies
• Possible Causes
• Combinations formed as intermetallics between the melt and metallic impurities
(foreign impurities);
• Charge materials or alloy additions which have not completely dissolved in the
melt;
• Exposed core wires or rods;
• During solidification, insoluble intermetallic compounds form and segregate,
concentrating in the residual liquid.
• Remedies
• Assure that charge materials are clean; eliminate foreign metals;
• Use small pieces of alloying material and master alloys in making up the charge;
• Be sure that the bath is hot enough when making the additions;
• Do not make addition too near to the time of pouring;
• For nonferrous alloys, protect cast iron crucibles with a suitable wash coating
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• INCLUSIONS (FOREIGN PARTICLES) IN CASTINGS
• TO AVOID DEFECTS-
• Basic economic factors relevant to casting operations to
be studied.
• General guidelines applied for all types of castings to be
studied.
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
• PRESSURE TIGHTNESS OF
VALVES BY SEALING THE
OPENING AND
PRESSURISING WITH
WATER
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