Aluminum Investment Casting: Aluminum has a wide range of favorable properties that make it the alloy of choice for several industries that require complex, lightweight investment castings with good mechanical properties. These alloys have good flow properties and can cast extremely thin walls with high precision. Their low density makes them ideal for the aerospace industry where weight...

Alloy steel casting is a steel casting process that is alloyed with various elements, in totals ranging from 1.0% to 50%, to enhance its mechanical properties. Alloy steels are divided into two groups: low alloy steels and high alloy steels. Most commonly, the alloy steels used in investment casting are low alloy steels.Strictly speaking, every steel is an alloy, but not all steels are called...

One of the most popular casting processes for automotive castings is sand casting. This process uses molds and various alloys to create various auto parts. Sand casting is ideal for small to mid-sized part runs because the mold falls off at the end of the cycle and is easy to build quickly. Aluminum alloys are popular in the sand casting process because they have a high strength-to-weight ratio...