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Molding Sands and Binding systems

Language of instruction angličtina, čeština
Code 652-1903
Abbreviation FSPS
Course title Molding Sands and Binding systems
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgical Technologies
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Lichý, Ph.D.

Summary

The subject is focused on the area - opening materials of the sand mixtures, quartz and non-silica opening materials, granulometric composition, activation of the opening materials, regeneration. The bonding-agent systems I. to IV., generation, chemical treatment in preparation of moulds and cores. Mixtures with alkaline silicates, application of macromolecular chemistry in the bonding-agent systems. The principles of physical bonding, the V-method, the EFF-SET
process. The interaction of mould vers. Metal, defects in castings – effect of
mould and of cores. The gaseous regime of a foundry mould, burning-in of
castings. The lustrous carbon and its role at formation of the surface of a
casting.

Literature

Sand Binder Systems III - XIII. Foundry Management and Technology. Cleveland:Penton, 1995, roč. 124. ISSN 0360-8999 
Mold & core test handbook. 3rd ed. Des Plaines: American Foundry Society, c2001-2006. ISBN 0-87433-228-1.

Advised literature

GOODRICH, G. M., ed. Casting defects handbook: iron & steel. Schaumburg: American Foundry Society, c2008. ISBN 978-0-87433-314-5.