We would like to thank Srinath Viswanathan of ORNL, who initiated phase I of the project, 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; M. Radovic and R.M. Trejo of ORNL, for conducting rheometry measurements on filled waxes at HTML/ORNL, and W.D. Porter of ORNL for conducting high temperature dilatometry measurements for 17-4PH alloy.Thanks also go to 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, providing wax patterns for the sprue, designing and coordinating the fabrication of a test bar, and coordinating wax injection, shell making, and casting at