Objective
Lost-foam casting of aluminium alloys faces a rejection rate of up to 20% due to problems arising from insufficient properties of conventional coatings of the foam plastics. Thus, although the technique has some advantages its present market share compared to other casting technologies is unsatisfactory. An ideal coating should easily and smoothly wet the foam surface have a good strength after drying and a high permeability for the evaporation products of the foam during casting. The objective of the project is the development and implementation of a new type of reactive coating. which by a chemical reaction at casting temperature (or below) forms a porous ceramic layer with the desired superior properties. It is expected that by the use of the new casting the rejection rate of the process can be reduced from 20 % to 1 %, so that in perspective the market share of lost-foam aluminium casting may be raised to 10 % of the total European market of 1800 MECU for aluminium sand-cast parts. Successful completion of the envisaged research project will, therefore, improve the competitive situation of medium-sized aluminium casting companies in Europe which are suppliers - for example - to the automotive industry.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering automotive engineering
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry post-transition metals
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
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Coordinator
53773 Hennef
Germany
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