Molding Materials

Student will able:
to know the rules for using quartz and non-quartz base sands;
to know processes of the cooling effect control of a foundry mould;
to explain kinds and importance of base sands surfaces and principles of their
measurements;
to know types and means for reclamation of foundry base sands;
to analyze physical and chemical nature of binding property and strength of moulding
mixtures;
to explain principles of classification of binder systems of the Ist up to IVth generation;
to design a binder system for the given technological process of casting manufacture;
to explain physical principles of binding the mixtures of the IIIrd generation;
to describe chemical hardening processes of inorganic and organic binders
(condensation, polymerization, addition, copolymerization).