Green compressive strength, permeability, deformation, flowability, compactability and green hardness values at room temperature are dependable on the grain distribution and grain shape. The results obtained under constant moisture (4% for sand) and bentonite (8% for sand) were as follows; 1. With decreasing grain size, surface area of sand grain was increased. 2. With decreasing grain size, coefficient of angularity was increased. 3. As surface area increased from $8926.43cm^2$ to $21211.16cm^2$ , green compressive strength was increased from $210.93\;g/cm^2$ to $449.98\;g/cm^2$, hardness was increased from 76.7 to 82.3, but permeability was decreased from $411.7\;{\frac{\;cc\;{\cdot}\;cm\;}{atm\;{\cdot}\;cm^2\;{\cdot}\;min.}}$ to $113.7\;{\frac{\;cc\;{\cdot}\;mm\;}{atm\;{\cdot}\;cm^2\;{\cdot}\;min.}}$ 4. As surface area increased from $8926.43\;cm^2$ to $21211.16\;cm^2$, flowability was decreased from 82.3% to 80.8%, deformation was decreased from $67.1\;cm\;{\times}\;10^{-3}$ to $54.6\;cm\;{\times}\;10^{-3}$, but compactability was increased from 44.8% to 54.3%. 5. Room temperature properties of molding sand were affected by variation of surface area.

In order to investigate the effect of size of sand grains, bentonite content and moisture on mixing power, standard mixing power, permeability, green compressive strength and green mold hardness were measured with mixing time, and also coated layer of mixed sand with time was observed by optical microscope and scanning electron microscope. From this experiment, the results were summarized as follows. 1. Mixing power increased as size of sand grains decreased. 2. Mixing power increased gradually as bentonite content increased and in particular, increased rapidly in 7-10% bentonite. 3. Mixing power increased as moisture content decreased. 4. The mixing time required to get the optimum mixing power decreased as moisture content and grain size increased, but increased as bentonite content increased.

IAD( Implicit Alternative Direction ) FDM을 사용하여 금형에서의 L형 순수알미늄 주물에 대하여 그 응고상황의 수치적 해석을 2차원적으로 시도하였다. 계산은 주형비 ( 주형의 부피/주물의 부피 )에 따라 금형 표면에서의 대류현상과 금형/주물계면에서의 Air-gap형성 현상을 고려에 넣은 경우와 그렇지 않은 경우로 나누어 각각 콤퓨터에 의해 계산하여 그 결과를 비교하였다. 또한 금형/주물 계면주위의 온도구배를 구함으로써 Air-gap이 열전달에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 이와같은 시도에 의하여 주물의 응고시간, 응고방향 Hot spot의 위치 등 주조에 있어서 매우 중요한 사항들을 알아내는데 Numerical Analysis 이 매우 유용한 방법임을, 특히 금형표면에서의 대류현상과 금형/주물 계면에서의 Air-gap형성현상을 고려에 넣은 경우에 더욱 정확한 결과를 기대할 수 있다는 것이 확인되었다.