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Casting VS Forging
There are a variety of manufacturing processes to produce a custom metal part. Each has its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Some of the important factors affecting the selection of a process include the following: - Quantity of the material required - Design of ...Read more -
Chrome Molybdenum Cast Steel
Chromium-molybdenum cast steel is widely used in industrial fields with relatively high mechanical properties. The addition of molybdenum to chromium steel can increase the strength of steel castings without having a significant impact on the impact toughness of cast ste...Read more -
Three Major Casting Processes
Various casting processes have been developed over the time by foundries and researchers, each with its own characteristics and applications of the metal castings to meet specific engineering and service requirements. Generally speaking, accord...Read more -
Shell Building for Investment Casting
Investment casting is to coat multiple layers of refractory coatings on the surface of the wax mold. After it is hardened and dried, the wax mold is melted by heating to obtain a shell with a cavity corresponding to the shape of the wax mold. After baking, it is poured i...Read more -
Facilities for Investment Casting at RMC Foundry
Investment casting, or precision casting in another name, needs a set of special equipment such as wax injection machines, vacuum dewaxing machine, baking furnace, electrical furnace and other post-processing machines like spectrometer, shot blasting machines, tumbling a...Read more -
Investment Casting Tolerance
As a precision casting process, the products produced by investment casting have high dimensional accuracy and low surface roughness values. Investment casting is a near net shape casting. Especially when silica sol is used as the raw material for making shell molds, the...Read more -
Brief Introduction of Wear-Resistant Cast Steel
Among a wide variety of casting alloys, wear-resistant cast steel is a very widely used alloy steel. Wear-resistant cast steel mainly improves the wear resistance of steel castings by adding different content of alloying elements, such as manganese, chromium, carbon, etc...Read more -
The Advantages of Steel Castings Comparing to the Steel Forgings
Steel castings the a combination of casting molding process and steel material metallurgy. They can not only have complex structure that are difficult to obtain by other forming processes, but also maintain the unique properties of...Read more -
What Is Precipitation Hardening Stainless Steel?
Precipitation hardening stainless steel, which is called PH Steel, refers to the kind of stainless steel which adds different types and quantities of strengthening elements, and different types and quantities of carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides and intermetallic compoun...Read more -
What Is Permanent Mould Casting?
The permanent mold casting refers to the casting process which use special metal mould (die) to receive the molten liquid cast metal. It is suitable to produce castings in large quantity. This cating proces is called metal die casting or gravity die casting, since the me...Read more -
Gray Cast Iron VS Ductile Cast Iron
Both the gray iron and ductile iron could be cast by sand casting process, shell molding casting process (resin coated sand), lost foam casting, vacuum casting and investment casting. Sand casting is one of the most popular and simplest types of casting. Sand casting all...Read more -
Vacuum Sealed Casting Process Under Pressure
Vacuum casting has many other names such as vacuum sealed casting, negative pressure sand casting, V process casting and V casting, just because of the negative pressure used for making the casting mold. It is of great importance to investigate the casting processes for ...Read more
