Asante Indigenous Lost Wax Cast Evolution for Profitable Economic Growth [PDF]
Globalization and competition with modern industrial products is the basic and fundamental setback for the viability, sustainability and preservation of local cultural heritage of traditional arts in most part of the world. This has been the case of Casting done at Krofofrom in the Asante Kingdom of Ghana.
Samuel Baah Kissi +2 more
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Lost-wax casting, also called precision casting, is the process of casting a duplicate metal sculpture cast an original sculpture. The ceramic shell mould used in lost-wax casting usually consists of several layers formed with fine zircon and granular ...
Wei-Hao Lee +3 more
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Casting Technology Experiment and Computer Modeling of Ornaments from Bronze Age [PDF]
The casting workshop was discovered with numerous artifacts, confirming the existence of the manufacturing process of metal ornaments using ceramic molds and investment casting technology in Lower Silesia (Poland) in 7-6 BC.
A. Garbacz-Klempka +4 more
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Effects of Casting Methods over the Composition Stability of the Dental Casting Alloy [PDF]
Introduction: Alloys with high nickel content have been increasingly used for dental prostheses. The dental casting machines are regularly used to make dental restorations.
Shubha Joshi +2 more
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Investigations Concerning Improvements of the Knock Out Property of Ceramic Moulds Applied in the Investment Casting Technology [PDF]
In lost wax technology, self-supporting ceramic moulds are made, which must have adequate strength after being filled with liquid metal. The final structural strength is determined by such factors as the thickness of the individual layers applied to the ...
Joanna Kolczyk-Tylka, Jerzy Zych
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First Evidence of “Earth Wax” Inside the Casting Molds from the Roman Era
This research was focused on the analysis of material composition and organic residues present in three molds found in the Moravian region (Czech Republic) belonging to the Roman era.
Klára Jagošová +6 more
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On an exceptional sample of wooden crystallographic models from the collection of minerals at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (France): description, history, digitalization, duplication [PDF]
The École des Mines de Saint-Étienne possesses an important collection of wooden and terracotta crystallographic models (several hundreds). During the 2000s, enhancement and rehabilitation action was undertaken.
J. Rieu, V. Beley, V. Beley, B. Guy
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Study of Investment Casting Technology from Bronze Age. Casting Workshop in Grzybiany (Southwest Poland). [PDF]
Investment casting technology that utilizes lost-wax casting is one of the most-important achievements of ancient society. In Lower Silesia, Poland (Grzybiany, Legnica county), a 7-6 BC casting workshop was discovered with numerous artifacts, confirming ...
T. Tokarski +5 more
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Modeling of acetosolv pulping of oil palm fronds using response surface methodology and wavelet neural networks [PDF]
Mathematical models based on response surface methodology (RSM) and wavelet neural networks (WNNs) in conjunction with a central composite design were developed in order to study the influence of pulping variables viz. acetic acid, temperature, time, and
Ibrahim, Mazlan +4 more
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