I'm designing a direct chill tilt-pour casting mold. Fused silica will be used for part of the mold. I have found a supplier of machine grade fused silica. I personally have never machined a ceramic and our machine shop also has close to nil experience. What is the extent of the lubrication that...
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I'm developing a Pd-based alloy, which forms a thermal oxide due to the alloying constituents. I'm investigating salt bath heat treating as a possible avenue for heat treating rather than vacuum heat treating. Preliminary studies using reactant-grade NaCl as the salt and at 1700F, 15min...
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Can swage cracking be minimized by using a mechanical feeding device? I would think that if the rod is feed into the swager off center bending stresses will occur, which could cause cracking. A mechanical feeding device could prevent this misalignment. Thanks for any input.
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I am involved in developing a nitinol off-shoot. According to preliminary rolling experiments, hot rolling may be required to achieve the appropriate reductions. Bear in mind, that I am following another persons previous work, and haven't done any cold-rolling experiments on my own yet...
