Near Net Shape Processing

Course content

The methods for manufacturing small section products such as strip, fibre, flake, wire directly from molten metal. Spray rolling, the Taylor wire process, melt spinning, melt overflow, melt drag, melt extraction, double roll quenching, thin slab casting (belt drive) and laser glaze process. Mass and heat flow analysis. Alloy design, dimensional control. Alloy parameters such as melt delivery speed, viscosity and surface tension.