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  • Normalization Heat Treatment for Steel Castings

    Normalization Heat Treatment for Steel Castings

    Normalizing, also known as normalization, is to heat the workpiece to Ac3 (Ac refers to the final temperature at which all free ferrite is transformed into austenite during heating, generally from 727°C to 912°C) or Acm (Acm is In actual heating, the critical temperature...
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  • Austenitic Stainless Steel

    Austenitic Stainless Steel

    Austenitic stainless steel refers to stainless steel with an austenitic structure at room temperature. Austenitic stainless steel is one of the five classes of stainless steel by crystalline structure (along with ferritic, martensitic, duplex and precipitation hardened)....
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  • Gray Cast Iron Mechanical Properties

    Gray Cast Iron Mechanical Properties

    Gray iron, or grey cast iron, is a type of cast iron that has a graphite microstructure. It is named after the gray color of the fracture it forms. The gray cast iron is used for custom grey iron castings where the stiffness of the component is more important than its te...
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  • Grey Cast Iron Magnetic Properties

    Grey Cast Iron Magnetic Properties

    Gray Iron Comparison Microstructure(Volume Fractions)(%) China(GB/T 9439) ISO 185 ASTM A48/A48M EN 1561 Matrix Structure HT100 (HT10-26) 100 No.20 F11401 EN-GJL-100 Pearlite: 30-70%, coarse flakes; Ferrite: 30-70%; Binary Phosphorus Eutectic: <7% ...
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  • Cobalt-based Alloy Castings

    Cobalt-based Alloy Castings

    Cobalt-based alloy is a hard alloy that can withstand various types of wear, corrosion and high temperature oxidation. Cobalt-based alloys are based on cobalt as the main component, containing a considerable amount of nickel, alloying chemical elements such as chromium, ...
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  • Description, Reasons and Remedies of Common Sand Casting Defects

    Description, Reasons and Remedies of Common Sand Casting Defects

    There are many reasons for sand casting defects in real sand casting process. But we can find the exact reasons by analyzing the defects inside and outside. Any irregularity in the moulding process causes defects in castings which may sometimes be tolerated. Usually the ...
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  • Industrial Electrocoating Surface Treatment for Metal Castings and Machining Products

    Industrial Electrocoating Surface Treatment for Metal Castings and Machining Products

    Industrial electrocoating is a widely used surface treatment for protecting the metal castings and CNC machining products from the corrosion with nice finish. Many customers ask questions about the surface treatment of metal castings and precision machined parts. This ar...
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  • Austempered Ductile Iron – ADI Castings

    Austempered Ductile Iron – ADI Castings

    Austempered ductile iron, also known as ADI, refers to the ductile cast iron after process of austenitizing ductile iron (850℃-950℃) and then quickly placing it in a salt bath (232℃-450℃) for isothermal transformation. In addition, with the addition of sufficient amounts...
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  • Cast Iron Castings VS Carbon Steel Castings

    Cast Iron Castings VS Carbon Steel Castings

    Cast iron castings have been used widely in industries and machineries since the modern foundry estabilished. Even in current times, the iron castings still play an important role in trucks, railroad freight cars, tractors, construction machineries, heavy duty equipment....
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  • Advantages of Lost Foam Casting Process

    Advantages of Lost Foam Casting Process

    Lost Foam Casting, which is also called LFC for short, uses the patterns remaining in the compacted dry sand mould (full mould). Therefore, the LFC is considered to be the most innovative large-scale series casting method for the production of complex metal castings of t...
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  • Coated Sand Casting VS Resin Sand Casting

    Coated Sand Casting VS Resin Sand Casting

    Coated sand mould casting and resin sand mould casting are two casting methods that are more and more widely used. In actual casting production, they are increasingly used to replace clay green sand casting. Although there are some similarities between resin sand and coa...
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  • Testing of Mechanical Properties of Metal Castings

    Testing of Mechanical Properties of Metal Castings

    Before we intorduce the testing of mechanical properties of the metal casting, it needs to be pointed out that the terminal inspection of casting quality is only the last checkpoint to prevent unqualified castings from leaving the factory. The key to ensuring the quality...
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