A new apparatus for measuring casting crack that sometimes occurs during soidification after molten metal is cast into mould was made by the author, which can automatically and simultaneously record cooling temperature time and stress time curves in continuity by means of quartz piezometer, vacuum tube amplifier and electromagnetic oscillograph as shown in Fig. 2.
1. The stress at crack occurring point measured by the apparatus is useful for quantitatively expressing the tendency to cracking,
2. Casting crack of all Al alloys that were tested on occurred always at temperatures below the solidus.
3. Tensile strength of alloys at temperature in the vicinity of solidus could be measured with this apparatus.
4. Effects of maximum melting temperature and pouring temperature, as casting conditions, on casting crack have been investigated.
5. General relationship between the tendency to cracking and composition of Al binary alloys has been observed as follows:-
(a) Al with the purity of less than 99.8% is fairly susceptible to cracking.
(b) Alloys with constituent of maximum solubility limit or thereabout are subject to maximum tendency to cracking. The constituent, however, makes considerable shifts to the side of α solid solution, in conformity with the degree of segregation at solidification of alloy.
(c) Alloys of eutectic constituent or in the neighborhood are least susceptible to cracking.
In consequence of the above studies, mechanism on the occurrence of casting crack has been theoretically explained in comparison with Singer and other's Studies.
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