This Month's Featured Book

Castings Practice: The 10 Rules of Castings

£40.00 (Member's Price: £36.00) Order Code: EBH 003

Author: Prof John Campbell OBE. Each chapter of Professor Campbell's latest book, Castings Practice, considers one of his 10 rules. This book distils the theory and practice of the metal casting process, to guide the foundrymen to produce quality and reliablility. About the Author - John Cambell OBE, has over two decades of experience in the casting industry and is the author of over 40 technical papers and patents. He has become well-known in the foundry industry as the originator of the Cosworth casting process, which is becoming accepted throughout the world as a new production process for the casting of cylinder heads and blocks. He was the Federal Mogul Professor of Casting Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK. A well presented and authorative guide. ISBN: 978 07506 4791 5 Pub 2004, 224 pages, paperback. Quoted price does not include Postage & Packaging.

Foundry Technology - Second Edition

£105.00 (Member's Price: £90.00) Order Code: EBH 007

Foundry Technology brings together basic metal casting phenomena, foundry techniques and product characteristics in a single work of reference. Peter Beeley was a foundry manager before he became a senior lecturer in metallurgy, and subsequently maintained continuous links with the castings industry and associated research activities and publications. His book is designed to serve as a bridge between the study of the basic principles of metal founding and their application in the producing and user industries. A particular aim of Foundry Technology is to assist engineers and engineering students in appreciating the role of castings in design and materials selection. Orthodox and specialized casting processes, and both ferrous and non-ferrous founding are considered on a comparative basis, and the place of castings in design is critically examined and related to other products. The revised edition takes account of the main changes in casting processes and products since the publication of the original edition in 1972. While retaining treatments of basic aspects of molding, solidification, cast structures and feeding, newer developments in modeling and rapid prototyping are reviewed, together with quality, environmental, health and other issues of growing importance. Author: Peter Beeley Pub Butterworth Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 978-0-7506-4567-6 Hardback, 719 pages. Quoted price does not include Postage & Packaging. Contents: Introduction; Liquid Metals and the Gating of Castings; Solidification 1 - Crystallization and the development of cast structure; Solidification 2 - the Feeding of Castings; The Moulding Material - Properties, Preparation and Testing; Defects in Castings; Quality Assessment and Control; Casting Design; Production Techniques 1 - the Manufacture of Sand Castings; Mould Production; Melting and Casting; Finishing Operations; Production Techniques 2 - Shell, Investment and Die Casting Techniques; Production Techniques 3 - Further Casting techniques; Environmental Protection, Health and Safety; Appendix; Index.

Castings Buyer - single issues

£0.00 Order Code: ICME CB

Free on request from ICME. Castings Buyer: promoting the use of cast components, specifically targeted at end users and customers to the foundry industry. Castings Buyer offers a focused tool for foundries to promote their products to the wider engineering environment by giving access to the most influential buyers and specifiers of components. Over 4500 copies of Castings Buyer are circulated to engineering designers and castings buyers in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA and the April 2007 issue of the publication was also at Subcon 2007. Castings Buyer covers the full range of cast alloys and processes as well as new and existing applications of cast components, new materials and processes. In particular the publication includes case studies showing new applications for castings. To find out how to receive your free copy contact ICME. This publication is supported by the Cast Metals Federation.