This book examines the investment casting process and its products, making it an invaluable reference source for those working in the industry itself, as well as engineers involved with the selection, design and use of investment castings. Coverage includes tooling, pattern technology, investment materials and ceramic shell manufacture, melting and casting, gating and feeding investment castings, finishing investment castings, health, safety and environmental legislation, defects and non-destructive testing, metallurgical aspects: structure control, design for investment casting and a review...

This work sets out to provide an up-to-date account of the physical properties and structure of polymers in the glassy state.

It has become increasingly evident that there is much to begained from a detailed understanding of the structure and properties of polymers in the oriented state. This book reftects the growth of interest in this area of polymer scienceand attempts to give the reader an up to date viewofthe present position. The individual chapters are for the most part self- contained, and cover a very wide range of topics. It is intended that each of them should serve the dual purpose of an expository introduction to the subject and a topical review of recent research. It is inevitable that there will be...