Download or read book Direct-Chill Casting of Light Alloys written by John Grandfield and published by Wiley-TMS. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Direct-chill casting is the major production route for wrought aluminium and magnesium alloys that are later deformed (rolled, extruded, forged) to the final products. To aid in this process, this book provides comprehensive coverage on topics such as the history of process development in this field, industrial applications, including vertical and horizontal casting, melt preparation, fundamentals of solidification in DC casting, and more. The first book targeted for the industrial researcher and practitioner, it pulls together the practice and process of physics with the goal of improving process performance.