im体育APP Engineers Develop New Cast Iron 技术
Building on their earlier work (see Optimizing structure-property relationship in ductile iron), im体育APP Wixom senior metallurgical engineers Rick Gundlach and Dr. 约翰·塔尔塔利亚 have conducted innovative research and published scholarly papers about a new heat treatment approach to obtaining superior properties in nodular cast iron.
Castings of three ductile iron alloys were intercritically (IC) austenitized to produce a fine-grained lamellar austenite-ferrite structure and were subsequently quenched and tempered. After IC austenitizing and quenching, the lamellar austenite grain size was substantially finer than the polygonal austenite grain structure produced by conventional, supercritical austenitizing and hardening above the critical temperature. 使力量最大化, the acicular austenite component of the IC heat-treated microstructure should be maximized. 因此, the casting must be heated as close to the upper critical temperature as possible without losing the fine-grained acicular austenite structure. Since the desired lamellar austenite structure only forms in ferrite, to achieve a uniform acicular structure throughout, it was necessary to eliminate pearlite by ferritizing the material prior to IC heat treatment.
IC heat treatment produced a unique lamellar structure consisting of acicular martensite in ferrite. The microstructures showed that discrete acicular austenite grains nucleate and grow from the ferrite grain boundaries and result in the formation of a microstructure consisting of “lamellar” austenite in ferrite. After quenching and tempering, the cell boundaries are mostly martensitic, whereas the cell interiors have a mixture of both martensite and ferrite grains with a lamellar grain morphology. The following SEM micrographs show the novel grain structure of martensite and ferrite of this new cast iron.
This novel approach to austenite grain refinement was applied to quench and temper (Q&T) ductile iron in order to improve its tensile properties. When the properties are compared to the standard Q&T grades of ASTM A536 Grade 120-90-02 and ISO 1083 Grade 900-2, the intercritically austenitized alloys exhibited the specified tensile properties with higher ductility. The IC heat-treated grades had up to 5% tensile elongation, which was higher than the standard grades with 2% elongation.
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Copyright 2022 American Foundry Society. Originally appearing in the International Journal of Metalcasting, Vol. 17, Issue 2 and made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of the American Foundry Society.
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