The lead article in the fall issue highlights findings of the AFS-sponsored research project Quantification of Casting Skin in Ductile and Compacted Graphite Irons and Its Effect on Tensile Properties, D. Stefanescu, S. Wills and J. Massone, The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, Ohio, and F. Duncan, Ashland Casting Solutions, Dublin, Ohio, and identifies the individual features that together define skin quality in ductile iron and compated graphite iron to develop a method for the measurement of skin thickness, and to quantify the influence of the skin of thin wall (2 to 6 mm) ductile iron castings on its tensile properties.

Also included in the fall IJMC are the papers Adapting More Progressive Refractory Coating Measurement Controls, Prediction of Hot Tear Formation in a Magnesium Alloy Permanent Mold Casting and Transformation Kinetics and Ferrite-Pearlite Ratios in a 65-45-12 Ductile Iron. The issue concludes with results from the AFS/FEF Student Technology Competition, which recognizes the metalcasting related research and activities of undergraduate students in the FEF school network.

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