Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Metallurgy, Techniques and Design

by John Campbell

Overview

Campbell’s Complete Casting Handbook: Metal Casting Processes, Techniques and Design, Second Edition provides an update to the first single-volume guide to cover modern principles and processes in such breadth and depth, while also retaining a clear, practical focus.

The work has a unique viewpoint, interpreting the behavior of castings, and metals as a whole, in terms of their biofilm content, the largely invisible casting defects which control much of the structure and behavior of metals.

This new edition includes new findings, many from John Campbell’s own research, on crack initiation, contact pouring, vortex gates, and the Cosworth Process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443335068
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	01/01/2026
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	1080
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

John Campbell OBE is a leading international figure in the castings industry, with over four decades of experience. He is the originator of the Cosworth Casting Process, the pre-eminent production process for automobile cylinder heads and blocks. He is also co-inventor of both the Baxi Casting Process (now owned by Alcoa) developed in the UK, and the newly emerging Alotech Casting Process in the USA. He is Professor Emeritus of Casting Technology at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Table of Contents

Part I: Casting Metallurgy1. The Melt2. Entrainment3. Flow 4. Molds and Cores 5. Solidification Structure6. Casting Alloys7. Porosity8. Cracks and Tears 9. Properties of Castings

Part II: Casting Manufacture10. The 10 Rules of Good Castings11. Filling System Design Fundamentals12. Filling System Components13. Filling System Design Practice14. Melting15. Molding16. Casting17. Controlled Solidification Techniques18. Dimensional Accuracy19. Post-Casting Processing

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The essential reference guide to the ‘art’ and science of metal casting for metallurgists and foundry engineers

Editorial Reviews

"In this, his latest book, Prof Campbell expands and develops many of the topics that he has previously considered and includes the more conventional casting technology subjects in one complete reference guide. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on casting quality, or the minimisation of defects, and John’s passion for his subject shines through. He takes careful note of the basic science, the physics and maths of how liquids flow, cool and solidify, but does not ‘blind with science’. Indeed his many years of practical problem solving with foundries means that he recognises the many constraints faced by the methods engineer. Given that during the casting process there are so many ways in which the metal quality can be compromised, his aim throughout is for foundries to be able to produce castings of consistent quality at lowest cost. Above all he wants to encourage a considered approach to the design of the running system and to the metal supply system… The ideal book for metallurgists and foundry engineers who design, specify or manufacture metal castings and a ‘must have’ reference guide for every foundry." --Foundry

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