SPECIAL CASTING & NON-FERROUS ALLOYS is a scientific and tech-nical bimonthly facing home and abroad, approved by the National ScienceCommittee of People’s Republic of China. The journal is sponsored jointlyby the Wuhan Institute of Mechanical Technology and the Foundry Instituteof the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. And it is the only technicaljournal which reports the newest achievements in the fields of specialcasting and non-ferrous alloys in our country.