Iron cast in exotic role

Cast Iron Metallurgy

Cast iron (CI) is one of the oldest materials in commercial use. It has excellent compressive strength and is commonly used for structures that require this property, as well as for water and sewer lines. This article explains CI metallurgy and why the understanding of this metallurgy is key to understanding other ferrous materials and alloys. The composition of cast iron (CI) varies significan...

Circumferential failures in grey cast iron pipes

Gray cast-iron water pipe metallurgy

The results of a metallographic study of grey cast iron water pipes are reported. These pipes had been installed between 1885 and 1973 in eight different water systems. Each pipe had been extracted during scheduled maintenance or failure repairs to provide data for a larger study to produce a methodology for determining the residual life of grey cast iron pipes. This metallographic study was co...

Cast iron component failure: A metallurgical investigation

A fractured nutcracker was examined for determining the root cause/s for premature fracture/failure. This is one of the common tools used typically for cracking hard nuts. In this study, metallurgical failure analysis techniques namely, visual inspection, optical microscopy, SEM, and hardness tests were used in investigating the broken product. From the metallurgical analysis, it was determined...

Niobium alloying effect in high carbon equivalent grey cast iron

Male, born in 1959. Professor and doctoral supervisor. He gained his Ph.D from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 1991. His research interests mainly focus on metal solidification, new continous casting technology, cast alloys and materials, etc. By now, his more than 220 academic papers have been published in journals demestic and abroad. He also holds 22 invention patents of Chin...