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Metal Casting Tutorial and Review Questions

The document contains review questions related to metal casting processes, covering topics such as advantages and disadvantages of casting, types of molds, and properties affecting fluidity and solidification. It also addresses specific casting methods, materials, and common defects encountered in casting. Additionally, it includes a comparison of sand casting and investment casting, as well as considerations for selecting appropriate manufacturing processes.

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Metal Casting Tutorial and Review Questions

The document contains review questions related to metal casting processes, covering topics such as advantages and disadvantages of casting, types of molds, and properties affecting fluidity and solidification. It also addresses specific casting methods, materials, and common defects encountered in casting. Additionally, it includes a comparison of sand casting and investment casting, as well as considerations for selecting appropriate manufacturing processes.

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Tutorial 8

METAL CASTING

Review Questions
1. Identify some of the important advantages of shape-casting processes.

2. What are some of the limitations and disadvantages of casting?

3. What is a factory that performs casting operations usually called?

4. What is the difference between an open mold and a closed mold?

5. Name the two basic mold types that distinguish casting processes.

6. Which casting process is the most important commercially?

7. What is the difference between a pattern and a core in sand molding?

8. What is meant by the term superheat?

9. Why should turbulent flow of molten metal into the mold be avoided?

10. What are some of the factors that affect the fluidity of a molten metal during pouring into a mold cavity?

11. How does solidification of alloys differ from solidification of pure metals?

12. There are various types of patterns used in sand casting. What is the difference between a split pattern
and a match-plate pattern?

13. What properties determine the quality of a sand mold for sand casting?
14. What are the most common metals used in die casting?

15. Which die-casting machines usually have a higher production rate, cold-chamber or hot-chamber, and
why?

16. Identify the three sources of contraction in a metal casting after pouring.?

17. What are some of the general defects encountered in casting processes? Name and briefly describe
three.

18. What is the composition of green sand in the green-sand molding process?

19. What are the advantages and disadvantages of sand casting over investment casting?

20. Why aluminum and copper alloys are unsuitable for use in hot chamber die casting?

21. There are four processes given: extrusion, deep drawing, sand casting and brazing. Select the
appropriate manufacturing process which use to produce metal component A as shown in Figure 1 and
explain your answer on the selection. (Hints: need to explain on each process)

Figure 1

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