One of the problems to be solved in obtaining press dies or injection dies from zinc alloy precision castings using the ceramic mold process is warping during the casting process. The cause of the warping is supposed mainly to be either one or both of the following two items.
(1) Thermal stress and strain due to unequal temperature distribution and cooling rate in the casting during cooling after solidification.
(2) Localized restraint of casting contraction by the mold during cooling. Two countermeasures to the warping were developed : (1) a controlling system for equalizing temperature in the castings, and (2) introduction of plate-like vacancies into the ceramic molds. The two methods have been successfully applied to the actual production of some large-scaled dies.
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