The Cosworth Casting Process: Evolution and benchmark

TMS Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 443-452

  Green, N R ^a   Tomkinson, A M ^a   Wright, T C ^a   Evans, J P ^a   Fuchs, U ^b   Tschegg, S ^b  

^a Cosworth Technology Ltd ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Casting; Core; Cosworth; Fatigue; Pressure

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CORRELATION METHODS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; PUMPS; SAND; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

CORE; METALLOSTIC PRESSURE; THE COSWORTH CASTING PROCESS;

CASTING;

EID: 32544448662     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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