Meet the editors

Dr. Zakaria Abdallah is the Principal and Lead Researcher of fracture and fatigue in the Steel and Metals Institute (SaMI) at Swansea University. This research institute acts as the research and development center for the various steel and metal industries in the UK. The role of Dr. Abdallah involves the in-house manufacturing of steel as well as testing of the mechanical properties and fracture characteristics under various testing condi-

tions. Dr. Abdallah has also worked at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre at Swansea University. This role involved research and development of the high temperature alloys utilized in aeroengines. This work provided extensive expertise in nickel, titanium, and steel alloys employed in gas turbines. The power gearbox in the Rolls-Royce Ultrafan® aeroengine was one of the major projects on which Dr. Abdallah has been working for several years. In the meantime, Dr. Abdallah has worked as a consultant for various industries, e.g. Airbus, TIMET, ETD, Rolls-Royce, in the UK under the umbrella of Swansea Materials Research and Testing (SMaRT) Ltd. Dr. Abdallah leads, or has led, several modules at Swansea University, e.g. advanced materials, fundamentals of materials, math for materials engineers, design against fatigue, etc. Dr. Abdallah is the supervisor of several undergraduate and postgraduate (MSc and Ph.D.) students working on various projects related to steel and metallic alloys. Dr. Abdallah has a very good track record of publications in internationally-recognized and peer-reviewed journals as well as international conferences and open access books. His research interests include: steel and metals, composite materials, materials characterization, creep and fatigue, life predictions of materials, thermo-mechanical testing, and heat treatment.

Dr. Nada Aldoumani is the Director of Innovative Technologies & Engineering Consultancy House (ITECH) Ltd., a registered business in the UK with headquarters based in London. Dr. Aldoumani provides services in metallic structures that make a major breakthrough in the field of uncertainty quantification of materials. In her business, Dr. Aldoumani is enhancing her consultancy expertise by providing services to customers worldwide.

This includes a finite element (FE) modeling and engineering solutions for newly designed products with the aid of uncertainty quantification and problem solving. Dr. Aldoumani was a fellow researcher at Swansea University with a structural engineering background. Dr. Aldoumani is an expert in composite materials for structural applications alongside extensive expertise in finite element (FE) modeling, ANSYS, PDL, ACP, and MATLAB coding. Dr. Aldoumani is also a pioneer in the era of uncertainty quantification in composite structures and adhesively bonded materials, in particular, those employed in the aerospace industry. During her career, Dr. Aldoumani has developed a novel approach that automates ANSYS through a MATLAB code that is capable of running thousands of trials to obtain probabilistic Gaussian distributions. Her work is now published in internationally recognized and peer-reviewed journals.

Contents

*by John Campbell*

Full Mold Casting

in Continuous Casting

and Inspection *by Nawaz Mahomed*

*and Alfonso Nájera Bastida*

Solidification of Metals and Alloys

*by Upendra Kumar Mohanty and Hrushikesh Sarangi*

Simulation and Validation of Castings in Shop Floor

*by Yuto Takagi, Masahiro Inagaki and Ken'ichi Yano*

*Jafeth Rodríguez Ávila, Carlos Rodrigo Muñiz-Valdés* 

*Mohamed H. Abdelaziz and Herbert W. Doty*

*by L. Anna Gowsalya and Mahboob E. Afshan*

*by Partha Haldar and Goutam Sutradhar*

Heat Transfer Studies on Solidification of Casting Process

CFD Optimization Method to Design Foam Residue Traps for

The Physical Chemistry of Steel Deoxidation and Nozzle Clogging

*by María-Guadalupe González Solórzano, Rodolfo Morales-Dávila,* 

Melt Treatment-Porosity Formation Relationship in Al-Si Cast Alloys

Shrinkage Porosity in Steel Sand Castings: Formation, Classification

*by Dominique Gagnon, Agnes M. Samuel, Fawzy H. Samuel,* 

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 41**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 71**

**Chapter 6 87**

**Chapter 7 113**

**Chapter 8 133**

Perspective Chapter: A Personal Overview of Casting Processes
