Influence of Boron on Crystallization and Microstructure of Ductile Cast Iron

Casting and stress-strain simulations of a cast ductile iron component using microstructure based mechanical behavior

The industrial demand for increased component performance with concurrent reductions in component weight, development times and verifications using physical prototypes drives the need to use the full potential of casting and Finite Element Method (FEM) simulations to correctly predict the mechanical behavior of cast components in service. The mechanical behavior of the component is determined b...

Effect of Alloying Elements on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Austempered Ductile Iron Alloys

Automatic Quantitative Analysis of Microstructure of Ductile Cast Iron Using Digital Image Processing

Ductile cast iron is preferred as nodular iron or spheroidal graphite iron. Ductile cast iron contains graphite in form of discrete nodules and matrix of ferrite and perlite. In order to determine the mechanical properties, one needs to determine volume of phases in matrix and nodularity in the microstructure of metal sample. Manual methods available for this, are time consuming and accuracy de...

Effect of Aluminum on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Austempered Ductile Iron Alloys

Effect of Aluminum on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Austempered Ductile Iron Alloys