Author: D. G. Eskin

JOHN F. GRANDFIELD, Ph D, is Director of Grandfield Technology Pty Ltd, a consulting and technology firm, and Adjunct Professor in the High Temperature Processing Group at Swinburne University of Technology. Dr. Grandfield has thirty years ofexperience in light metals research and technology, with anemphasis on smelting, continuous casting, and metal refining. Inaddition, he has conducted plant benchmarking audits and technologyreviews, optimized existing technology, managed technologytransfer, and developed and commercialized new technologies. DMITRY G. ESKIN, Ph D, is a Professor of Solidification Research at Brunel University (UK). Internationally recognized forhis work in physical metallurgy and solidification processing oflight alloys, Dr. Eskin holds several patents and is the author orcoauthor of five monographs and more than 160 scientific papers.Among his publications are Advanced Aluminum Alloys Containing Scandium, Multicomponent Phase Diagrams: Applications for Commercial Aluminum Alloys, and Physical Metallurgy of Direct Chill Casting of Aluminum Alloys.