Education Resources

One of the goals the Foundry Research Group has is to advance education in metalcasting.  As part of this mission, the group tries to create tutorials and HOWTOs to support foundry instruction.  Please visit this section from time to time for various resources for metalcasting educators.

Tutorials

• Sodium Silicate Coremaking
• Simple Riser Design
• Creating a cope and drag pattern from RP parts
• Calibrating an image in ImageJ
• Area fraction measurement using ImageJ
• Measuring SDAS using ImageJ 
• Linear Intercept Method for Two Phase Microstructures (a.k.a. Measuring Ferrite Size Using Linear Intercept Method)
• Using ImageJ to measure particle size
• Measuring graphite flake size in grey iron using ImageJ
• Measuring nodularity and nodule count using ImageJ

Contributed Articles

• A Method for Verifying the Elimination of Residual Moisture Content from Alcohol

Links

• ImageJ is the main tool we use for conducting image analysis of our micrographs.

• Casting Design Tutorials a set of casting and process design related tutorials sponsored by SFSA and AFS.
  

• Foundry Education Foundation an organization dedicated to helping students enter into the foundry industry and promote foundry education.