Macro Defects in Steel - Casting Defects

Casting Defects

Abnormal nodulizing defect - Casting defects
Adherent packing material - Casting defects
Air inclusions - Casting defects
Alloy segregation - Casting defects
Aluminum-nitride cracks - Casting defects
Axial shrinkage - Casting defects
Black spots - Casting defects
Blacking drops - Casting defects
Blacking or refractory coating inclusions - Casting defects
Blacking scab - Casting defects
Blacking scab, wash scab - Casting defects
Blow holes and open blow - Casting defects
Blowhole - Casting defects
Blowhole/gas cavities/cavities (blowholes) due to boiling - Casting defects
Blowhole/gas cavities/cavities (blowholes) due to boiling - Casting defects
Blowholes - Casting defects
Blowholes at angles - Mould - Casting defects
Blowholes, adjacent to inserts, chills, chaplets, etc. - Casting defects
Blowholes, pinholes - Casting defects
Blowholes/pinholes - Casting defects
Bore crack - Casting defects
Breakage (cold) - Casting defects
Broken casting (at gate, riser, or vent) - Casting defects
Broken mould - Mould - Casting defects
Broken or crushed core - Casting defects
Broken out gate - Casting defects
Buckle - Casting defects
Burn in - Casting defects
Burn on - Casting defects
Burned on sand - Casting defects
Burnt-on sand - Mould - Casting defects
Camber/swells - Casting defects
Camber/swells - Casting defects
Carbon monoxide blowhole - Casting defects
Carbon monoxide pinholes - Casting defects
Casting chilling defect - Casting defects
Casting distortion - Casting defects
Castings with sand inclusions - Casting defects
Cavities - Casting defects
Centerline or axial shrinkage - Casting defects
Chaplet or insert cold shut, unfused chaplet - Casting defects
Chill crack - Casting defects
Chill iron marks - Casting defects
Cold cracking - Casting defects
Cold fracture - Casting defects
Cold lap or cold shut - Casting defects
Cold shot - Casting defects
Cold shot inclusion/spray bead - Casting defects
Cold shot inclusion/spray bead - Casting defects
Cold shut - Casting defects
Cold shut - Casting defects
Cold shut or cold lap - Casting defects
Cold stress crack - Casting defects
Cold tearing - Casting defects
Common casting defects I - Casting defects
Common casting defects II - Casting defects
Common casting defects III - Casting defects
Conchoidal or "rock candy" fracture - Casting defects
Cope defect, elephant skin, laps - Casting defects
Cope spall, boil scab, erosion scab - Casting defects
Core damage - Casting defects
Core damage - Casting defects
Core shrinkage - Casting defects
Corner blowholes, draws - Casting defects
Corner or fillet shrinkage - Casting defects
Corner scab - Casting defects
Crack defect - Casting defects
Cracked or broken mold - Casting defects
Cracks - Casting defects
Craze cracking - Casting defects
Crow’s feet - Casting defects
Crush - Casting defects
Defective coating (teardropping) or poor mold repair - Casting defects
Defective surface - Casting defects
Defects causing casting breakage at machining - Casting defects
Defects causing pressurized leak test failure - Casting defects
Defects causing surface imperfection - Casting defects
Defects in the bulk volume of a nitrogen steel riser - Casting defects
Deformed mold, mold creep, springback - Casting defects
Deformed pattern - Casting defects
Dicontinuities - Casting defects
Dimensional variation - Casting defects
Dimensional variation - Casting defects
Dip coat spall, scab - Casting defects
Dispersed shrinkage - Casting defects
Dispersed shrinkage - Casting defects
Dispersed shrinkage - Casting defects
Dispersed shrinkage - Casting defects
Distorted casting - Casting defects
Distortion or warp - Casting defects
Draw/blowhole - Casting defects
Dross - Casting defects
Dross - Casting defects
Elephant skin - Casting defects
Elephant skin - Casting defects
Elephant skin and a gas - Casting defects
Elephant skin defect - Casting defects
Erosion - Mould - Casting defects
Erosion, cut, or wash - Casting defects
Erosion/washout - Casting defects
Excess rapping of pattern - Casting defects
Excessive cleaning - Casting defects
Expansion scab - Casting defects
Explosion penetration - Casting defects
Explosion penetration - Mould - Casting defects
Fillet - Casting defects
Fillet - Casting defects
Fillet scab - Casting defects
Fillet scabs - Casting defects
Fillet vein - Casting defects
Fissure defects - Mould - Casting defects
Flash defect - Casting defects
Flash/casting - Casting defects
Flash/core - Casting defects
Flow marks - Casting defects
Flow marks, crow's feet - Casting defects
Fractured casting - Casting defects
Fusion - Casting defects
Fusion or melting during heat treatment - Casting defects
Gas defects - Casting defects
Gas defects in casting - Casting defects
Gas porosity - Casting defects
Gas porosity - Casting defects
Graphite degeneration in GJL - Casting defects
Graphite degeneration in GJS - Casting defects
Graphite degeneration of the rim zone of castings made from GJS - Casting defects
Graphite flotation - Casting defects
Hard spots - Casting defects
Heat-checked die - Casting defects
Hindered contraction - Casting defects
Hot crack - Casting defects
Hot crack - Casting defects
Hot cracking - Casting defects
Hot tearing - Casting defects
Hot tears - Casting defects
Hot tears - Casting defects
Hot tears - Casting defects
Hydrogen assisted cracking - Casting defects
Hydrogen pinholes - Casting defects
Improper shrinkage allowance - Casting defects
Inclusion defect - Casting defects
Inclusion of foreign metal - Casting defects
Inclusion of foreign metal - Casting defects
Inclusions trapped in a spherical sand trap - Casting defects
Inclusions – sand - Casting defects
Inclusions – slag - Casting defects
Incomplete casting - Casting defects
Ingate hot crack - Casting defects
Intergranular corrosion - Casting defects
Internal or blind shrinkage - Casting defects
Internal shrinkage cavities - Casting defects
Internal shrinkage cavity/micro shrinkage cavity - Casting defects
Internal sweating, phosphide sweat - Casting defects
Internal sweating, cold short, short iron - Casting defects
Interrupted pour - Casting defects
Inverse chill - Casting defects
Irregular contraction - Casting defects
Joint flash defect - Casting defects
Joint flash or fins - Casting defects
Large v-block - Casting defects
Lug/mould damage - Casting defects
Lustrous carbon - Casting defects
Lustrous carbon film - Casting defects
Lustrous carbon films, or kish tracks - Casting defects
Lustrous carbon inclusions - Mould - Casting defects
Macro- or microshrinkage, shrinkage porosity, leakers - Casting defects
Macroporosity - Casting defects
Massive free carbides - Casting defects
Matrix deviation in castings made from GJS - Casting defects
Mechanical damage defect - Casting defects
Metal expansion penetration - Casting defects
Metal expansion penetration - Casting defects
Metal expansion penetration - Casting defects
Metal penetration - Casting defects
Metal penetration - Casting defects
Metal penetration - Casting defects
Metal penetration - Casting defects
Metal penetration - Mould - Casting defects
Metallic inclusions - Casting defects
Mettalic projection - Casting defects
Micro shrinkage cavity with oxide layers (draw) - Casting defects
Micro-cavities - Mould - Casting defects
Mis runs and cold shuts - Casting defects
Misalignment failure - Casting defects
Mismatch - Casting defects
Mismatch - Casting defects
Mismatch in core/shifted core - Casting defects
Mismatch in core/shifted core - Casting defects
Mismatch in mold - Casting defects
Mismatch in mold - Casting defects
Misrun - Casting defects
Misrun - Casting defects
Misrun - Casting defects
Mold drop - Casting defects
Mold drop or sticker - Casting defects
Molding material defects - Casting defects
Mould damage - Casting defects
Nitrogen pinholes - Casting defects
Open or external shrinkage - Casting defects
Orange peel, metal mold reaction, alligator skin - Casting defects
Oxide inclusion or skins, seams - Casting defects
Oxide scale - Casting defects
Oxide skin - Casting defects
Pattern error - Casting defects
Pattern mounting error - Casting defects
Penetration - Casting defects
Penetration - Mould - Casting defects
Pin hole porosity - Casting defects
Pinhole - Casting defects
Pinholes - Casting defects
Pinholes - Mould - Casting defects
Poor welding - Casting defects
Porosity - Casting defects in the block window I - Casting defects
Porosity - Casting defects in the block window II - Casting defects
Porosity in AISI 8630 cast steel - Casting defects
Porosity shrinkage defect - Casting defects
Poured short - Casting defects
Primary chill - Casting defects
Push-up, clamp-off - Casting defects
Quench cracking - Casting defects
Quench cracks - Casting defects
Raised core or mold element cutoff - Casting defects
Raised mold defect - Casting defects
Raised sand - Casting defects
Ramoff, ramaway - Casting defects
Rat tail - Casting defects
Rat tail - Casting defects
Rat tail and buckles - Casting defects
Rattails - Casting defects
Reasons for casting rejections - Casting defects
Riser-contact cracks - Casting defects
Rough casting surface - Casting defects
Rough casting surface/Roughness - Casting defects
Rough casting surface/roughness - Casting defects
Rough surface defect - Casting defects
Runout - Casting defects
Runout - Casting defects
Sand burning - Casting defects
Sand drop defect - Casting defects
Sand fur - Casting defects
Sand hole defects - Casting defects
Sand inclusion - Casting defects
Sand inclusion - Casting defects
Sand inclusions - Casting defects
Sand inclusions - Casting defects
Sand inclusions - Casting defects
Sand inclusions - Mould - Casting defects
Scabbing - Casting defects
Scabbing - Mould - Casting defects
Scabs, expansion scabs - Casting defects
Scaling - Casting defects
Scarred surface - Mould - Casting defects
Scum defects - Casting defects
Seams or scars - Casting defects
Seams or scars - Casting defects
Severe roughness, high pressure molding defect - Casting defects
Shift - Casting defects
Shifted core - Casting defects
Shot blast rounded - Casting defects
Shrinkage - Casting defects
Shrinkage - Casting defects
Shrinkage and the macrostructure - Casting defects
Shrinkage and the macrostructure - Casting defects
Shrinkage cavity defect - Casting defects
Shrinkage depression defect - Casting defects
Shrinkage in spheroidal casting - Casting defects
Shrinkage porosity - Casting defects
Shrinkage porosity - Defect characterization - Casting defects
Sink mark - Casting defects
Sink marks, draw or suck-in - Casting defects
Slag blowhole defect - Casting defects
Slag blowholes - Casting defects
Slag inclusion - Casting defects
Slag inclusion - Casting defects
Slag inclusion defect - Casting defects
Slag inclusion defect - Casting defects
Slag inclusions - Casting defects
Slag inclusions - Mould - Casting defects
Slag scars (dross) - Casting defects
Slag, dross or flux inclusions, ceroxides - Casting defects
Soft or insufficient ramming, mold-wall movement - Casting defects
Soldering, die erosion - Casting defects
Solidification macrostructure - Casting defects
Some typical slab casting defects
Squeezed out bubble - Casting defects
Stripping defect - Casting defects
Sub-surface shrinkage - Casting defects
Surface blowholes - Mould - Casting defects
Surface folds, gas runs - Casting defects
Surface or subsurface blowholes - Casting defects
Surface pinholes - Casting defects
Surface roughness - Mould - Casting defects
Swell - Casting defects
Swelling - Mould - Casting defects
The mould has run empty - Casting defects
Thermal fatigue - Casting defects
Torn off of cods and mould edges - Casting defects
Uneven hardness defect - Casting defects
Veining - Casting defects
Veining or finning - Casting defects
Veins defect - Casting defects
Warped casting - Casting defects
Washout/erosion - Casting defects
Washout/erosion - Casting defects
Welding repair marks - Casting defects
Where do cracks occur? and When do cracks occur? - Casting defects