Complete guide to metal extrusion. Covers direct and indirect hot extrusion, cold extrusion, billet-on-billet, die design, extrusion ratio, common defects (fir tree, piping), and aluminium profile production.
Technical guide to deep drawing of sheet metals. Covers limiting draw ratio (LDR), formability testing (FLD, Erichsen), springback in AHSS, blankholder force, lubrication, and tooling materials.
Complete guide to thermal spray coating processes. Covers HVOF (high-velocity oxy-fuel), atmospheric plasma spray (APS), vacuum plasma spray (VPS), and cold spray — process physics, coating properties, and industrial applications.
Technical guide to investment casting of nickel superalloys. Covers wax injection, ceramic shell building, directional solidification (DS) and single crystal (SX) casting, grain selector, and common defect types.
Technical guide to arc spraying and wire flame spraying. Covers arc spray process physics, ZnAl alloy wire for marine corrosion protection, mild steel overlay for dimensional restoration, and TSA (thermal-sprayed aluminium) for offshore.
Technical guide to hot rolling of steel. Covers dynamic and static recrystallisation, non-recrystallisation temperature, controlled rolling schedules, accelerated cooling, and HSLA plate properties.
Technical guide to electroplating metallurgy. Covers nucleation and growth of deposits, Faraday’s law, grain structure of Ni/Cr/Cu deposits, internal tensile and compressive stress, adhesion failure mechanisms, and thickness measurement.
Technical guide to laser powder directed energy deposition (DED) for cladding and repair. Covers dilution control, solidification microstructure, powder alloy selection for corrosion/wear, HAZ effects, and turbine blade tip repair.
Technical guide to steel wire drawing metallurgy. Covers patenting (lead bath treatment), drawing die materials and angles, pearlite colony alignment, true strain, and wire rope construction and fatigue.
Technical guide to the unique microstructures produced by laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF/SLM). Covers epitaxial grain growth, columnar-to-equiaxed transition, melt pool morphology, residual stress, and heat treatment for Ti-6Al-4V and 316L.