We would like to thank M. Argueso & Co., Inc., for providing the wax for this study; T. Wolf, P. A. Silverstein, W. R. Fricker, and I. Al-Rabadi of Argueso for assistance with the wax injection experiments; G. Rowe of Abatech, Inc., for obtaining the viscoelastic relaxation spectrum from rheometry data; and T. A. Parham and C. M. Smith for assistance with pressure transducer thermocouples.Thanks also go to Srinath Viswanathan of ORNL, with whom we collaborated on past project tasks and who supervised the work on Sections 1, 2.1, and 2.2. We thank J. Snow, D. Scott, and B. Sneider of Minco, Inc., for shell investment and for embedding thermocouples within the shell; E. Hatfield for casting assistance; Z. Wu, a University of Tennessee graduate student, for obtaining the shrinkage factors from measured dimensions; J. Kovatch and R. Abramczyk of Precision Metalsmiths, Inc. (PMI), for conducting casting experiments; Allen Bransford and Mike Payne, Precision Castings of Tennessee, Inc., for providing access to their foundry; B. Schrey, of Schrey & Sons Mold Co., for providing the sprue tooling; and Jim Gardner, J.E.M. Manufacturing, for casting design and providing wax patterns for the sprue.Oak Ridge National Laboratory is operated by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. We wish to thank Peter Angelini, ORNL, for project guidance and review.