"castings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to things which have been cast, such as metal parts and artworks. For example, "The artist displayed her intricate bronze castings throughout the gallery."
Centrifugal casting, however, uses a rotating mold to produce hollow cylindrical castings, such as cast-iron drainpipes.
In the automotive industry, 3XX.X castings have replaced cast iron in transmission cases, intake manifolds, engine blocks, and cylinder heads because the reduced weight improves fuel economy.
These SG (spheroidal graphite) irons, which are also called ductile irons, are strong and malleable; they are also easy to cast and are sometimes preferred to steel castings and forgings.
Iron castings can be made in many ways, but sand-casting is the most common.
Cuban agriculture has now become a world-class laboratory for non-chemical fertilisers and pesti cides, farming in small units with highly motivated producers, and growing food in and around cities. Traditional practices, such as the use of compost castings made by red worms fed on a diet of kitchen scraps, were revived and refined.
According to Yoshitaka Sato, who is in charge of the company's exports of forgings and castings, orders have doubled over the past two years.
ZA 8 is an alloy used for gravity-cast parts in which improved creep resistance is required, whereas alloys ZA 12 and ZA 27 are general-purpose foundry alloys used in sand-casting, permanent-mold-casting, and cold-chamber pressure die-casting.
Hanseatic bowls were probably made in the bronze-casting centres where candlesticks and aquamaniles (and indeed all medieval cast bronze) were made: in the Meuse district and Lorraine, in Lower Saxony and the Harz Mountains, and also in England.
It was one of Hollywood's most famous mis-castings.
It works out by moving huge concrete structures, steel-castings and pallets loaded with glass.At just 1.4 metres in height, Partner Robot is a wimp but its talent is versatility, not strength.
CASTING about for a new music director in 1957, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra threw caution and tradition to the winds.
