After completing this course the student will be able to;
- Derive critical radius of nucleation during solidification of pure metals;
- Use physical metallurgy principles to predict liquid metal composition at a particular cooling condition;
- Predict shrinkage condition for a particular gradient within mould cavity during solidification;
- Understand the constitutional undercooling and alloying conditions may yield dendritic, cellular or plane front columnar grain formation;
- Calculate optimum riser volume which may be appropriate for shrinkage free casting;
- Calculate filling time of a mould cavity without turbulence.