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Casting (Manufacturing)
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Casting, Lost-Wax Casting, Sand Casting, Rotational Molding, Spray Forming, Industrial Radiography, Investment Casting, Casting Defect, Die Casting, Continuous Casting, Magnetic-Particle Inspection, History of Spray Forming, Fusible Core Injection Molding, Controlled Permeability Formwork, Bronze Sculpture, Spin Casting, Core, Dye Penetrant Inspection, Ingot, Plano-Convex Ingot, Riser, Semi-Solid Metal Casting, Freeze Casting, Ultrasonic Testing, Lost-Foam Casting, Non-Metallic Inclusions, Resin Casting, Foundry Sand Testing, Plaster Mold Casting, Shell Molding, Evaporative-Pattern Casting, Pattern, Full-Mold Casting, Steel Casting, Ladle, Sprue, Disamatic, Directional Solidification, Casting, Centrifugal Casting, Centrifugal Casting, Semi-Finished Casting Products, Castability, Wax Carving, Sand Rammer, Unicast Ceramic Molding Process, Hand Mould, Cope and Drag, Flask, Dross, Permeability, Core Plug, Chill, Vacuum Casting, Molding Sand, Chvorinov's Rule, Institute of Cast Metals Engineers, Draft, Tundish, Rubber Plaster Mold, Endocranial Cast, Semi-Steel, Tape Casting, Entrainment Defect, Centrifugal Casting. Excerpt: Jeté (Enzo Plazzotta , 1975), at Millbank in Westminster , England , illustrates the material's capabilities. Richard the Lionheart (Carlo Marochetti , 1860), outside the Palace of Westminster in central London , England. Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures ; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a "bronze". Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mold. Their strength and ductility (lack of brittleness) is an advantage when figures in action are to be created, especially when compared to various ceramic or stone
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