In aluminum sand casting, which defect results when molten metal cools rapidly on one side, preventing uniform solidification?

💡 Explanation

Hot tearing arises because constrained thermal contraction leads to tensile stresses exceeding the material's high-temperature strength; the mechanism is stress concentration during solidification. Therefore, a hot tear results rather than porosity or a misrun, since those are caused by gas evolution or insufficient material fill.

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