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3. Conclusion
Today, sand casting (as well as lost-wax and plaster casting) is still confined in France to its traditional small-scale applications, covering the whole spectrum of requirements, from parts with high mechanical characteristics and sometimes highly sophisticated shapes, to street furniture. In other European and American countries, however, large-scale production for the automotive industry on high-productivity sites has been successfully developed.
Lost foam seems to have found a lasting niche in cylinder heads, thanks to the freedom of internal shapes it allows. If a practical means of accelerating cooling of critical areas (combustion chambers) were invented, at least locally, its use could be extended to more highly stressed engines.
On the other hand, it's still too early to say what the future holds for the ablation process, a technology...
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Bibliography
Theses
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Brochures and catalogs
Éditions Techniques des Industries de la Fonderie catalog and Centre Technique des Industries de la Fonderie brochures.
International bibliographic databases
Aluminium Metadex
Reviews
France
Fonderie magazine (CTIF and ATF, monthly)
Revue de Métallurgie (monthly)
Germany
Gießerei (monthly)
Gießerei-Praxis (monthly)
Gießerei Forschung (quarterly)
United States
Modern Casting (monthly)
Foundry...
Exhibitions and congresses
World
World Foundry Congress; held every two years in a different country, usually at the end of the 3rd quarter.
France
Journées d'Études of the Association Technique de Fonderie (ATF); in France, every year.
SF2M annual conference organized by the French Society of Metallurgy and Materials; held every year in...
Patents
French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI)
A large number of patents relating to aluminum alloy casting have been filed or are in the process of being filed around the world; an exhaustive list is impossible to draw up due to the constant number of filings.
To obtain information on a given subject at a given time, it is therefore advisable to contact INPI :...
Standardization
French and European standards. French Standards Association (AFNOR)
Standards NF EN ISO
- Geometric product specification (GPS) – Dimensional and geometric tolerances for molded parts. - NF EN ISO 8062 - (2007) :
- Aluminium and aluminium...
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