Abstract
THE attention being paid at the present time to the production of sound ingots of all kinds is well illus-strated by the remarkable reports which are being issued by the Heterogeneity Committee of the Iron and Steel Institute, and by the work done on brass by the Research Department at Woolwich for the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association. Since a sound ingot is the essential starting point for sound products to be produced therefrom, this type of research, slow and tedious as it may be, finds most ample justification. The book under review is, in a collected form, the reports which have been prepared for the latter of the two research programmes men tioned above. To manufacturers of brass ingots for rolling it will be essential, but its importance extends much further than this. When at length the individual links can be welded into a comprehensive theory of the solidification of metals in moulds, the present work will not be the least useful. The amount of experimental information contained is large, the work has been well and patiently done, and the authors may be congratulated on the production of a volume of real value. The fact that the separate portions of the work were made the subjects of individual reports may possibly be the explanation of the one criticism which may be made, namely that there appears to be a certain lack of cohesion.
The Casting of Brass Ingots.
R.
Genders
G. L.
Bailey
By. (Research Monograph No. 3.) Pp. xv + 191 + 63 plates. (London: British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, 1934.) 15s.
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T., F. [Short Reviews]. Nature 134, 556 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134556b0
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