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Casting Process – Sand Casting
 Corner, angles, and section thickness
- Sharp corner, angles, and fillet should be avoided
- They act as a stress raisers and may cause cracking and tearing of metal
- This indicates as the fillet radii of faucet is larger, the volume of material become larger but
causing the cooling rate for faucet lower.

Joining Process – Mechanical Fastening

 Size and Spacing
- Design of mechanical joints requires a consideration of the type of the loading to which the structure
will be subjected on the size and the spacing of the hole.
- The fit between parts to be joined should be accomplished with the minimum number of fastener.
Then, the fit between parts should be joined loose as possible to facilitate the assembly process thus
reducing the cost.
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Metal Forming Process – Metal Forging
 Shape
- There are a few design consideration for forging dies which are the shape, complexity of the workpiece, forgeability,
strength and its sensitivity to deformation rate, temperature etc.
- The part will flow in the direction of least resistance.
- The workpiece should be considered so that the die cavities can be fully filled.
- Draft angles are necessary to facilitate removal of the forging.
- Small fillet radii should be as large as possible to avoid cracking.

Non-Metal Forming Process – Dry pressing

 Strength
- In the water faucet, the cartridge is considered as ceramic.
- The product requires careful selection of processing methods, composition, finishing operations and
method assembly with other components.
- Ceramic and glass has a poor tensile strength, high sensitivity to the internal and external defects, low
impact toughness and static fatigue
- Hence material with good hardness, high scratch and compressive strength to obtain a good results.