Study on the serialization and applications of low carbon ductile iron

1 Introduction Ductile cast iron can be got after the molten iron in either eutectic or hypereutectic compositions modified by RE-Mg alloy or treated by enough inoculation and heat treatment, since the birth of ductile cast iron. During the development of ordinary ductile cast iron, the content of carbon is never lower than 2.0%, the low carbon ductile iron that is not treated by heat treatment and mod- ified by the inoculation alloy mainly composed of anti- spherical surface active elements …

Study on the serialization and applications of low carbon ductile iron

Both the production process and the chemical composition of Sx were studied, and the serialization of iow carbon ductile iron was also discussed. It was indicated that Sx modifier was sensitive to the carbon equivalent (CE) of molten iron and to some alloying elements too. When the CE of molten iron and the contents of alloying elements were changed, the content of Sx must be revised with the change correspondingly. Low carbon ductile iron can be stably changed into the one that non-carbon acicular ferrite and retained austenite (about 25%-28%) by quasi-casting bainitic process of using Sx-2 modifier treated Si-Mn-Cr-Cu-alloyed low carbon molten iron. The austenitic low carbon as-cast ductile iron could be obtained by the Ni-Si-Cr 35 5 2 percent alloys molten iron with less than 2% carbon treated by type Sx-3 modifier. The high-toughness ferritic low carbon as-cast ductile iron which contained more than 85 % ferrite in matrix could be got after the molten iron treated by type Sx-4 modifier, and it's elongation was more than 10 %.