Abstract:
In the jewelry industry, the investment was used to produce investment mold for lost wax casting. The popular investment for gold casting is the gypsum-boned investment that consists of three phase including cristobalite, quartz, and gypsum as a binder. During burning out, the dehydration of gypsum, cristobalite and quartz inversions and III-II calcium sulfate transition were indicated by using several characterization techniques. In spinel-based investment view, titanium casting can use the spinel-based investment that consists of magnesia and alumina. During burning out mold, magnesium acetate as binder decomposes to magnesia. When the temperature increased, magnesium aluminate spinel was occurred by the reaction of magnesia and alumina. After developed the burnout cycle from consideration in the thermal behavior of investments, the investment molds that were burned out by using new burnout cycle, can increase the strength of investment molds and the quality of casting product were not decreased. In gypsum-bonded investment, the new burnout cycle can decrease burnout time in casting process. However, the smallest particle size of investment can produce good surface quality in casting product but has a low permeability of the mold that causes porosity defects at subsurface of casting product and decreasing hardness on casting surface.