chapter 1 Direct chill billet casting of aluminium alloys -- chapter 2 Continuous casting of aluminium alloys -- chapter 3 Continuous casting of steels -- chapter 4 Castings in the automotive industry -- chapter 5 Cast Al-Si piston alloys -- chapter 6 Mould filling simulation of die-casting -- chapter 7 The ten casting rules -- chapter 8 Grain selection in single-crystal superalloy castings -- chapter 9 Defects in aluminium shape casting -- chapter 10 Pattern formation during solidification -- chapter 11 Peritectic solidification -- chapter 12 Heterogeneous nucleation in aluminium alloys -- chapter 13 Control of grain size in solidification -- chapter 14 Step casting -- chapter 15 Intermetallic selection during solidification of aluminium alloys -- chapter 16 Cooling rate and structure of commercial aluminium alloys -- chapter 17 Solidification structure control by magnetic fields -- chapter 18 Direct observation of solidification and solid-phase transformations -- chapter 19 Interfacial energy and structure in Al-Si alloys -- chapter 20 Rheocasting of TiAl alloys and composites -- chapter 21 Solidification of metallic glasses -- chapter 22 New eutectic ceramics -- chapter 23 Rapid solidification of peritectics -- chapter 24 Peritectic solidification of superconducting oxides.