Cast Iron Fundamentals

Included Topics:

• Overview of ferrous materials
• Iron-carbon diagram
• Fundamentals of microstructure formation and alloying
• Solidification behaviour of cast iron
• Alloying cast iron – iron-carbon alloy – practical classification of the addition elements
• Quasi-binary section through the Fe-C-Si system at a constant silicon content of 2.4 %
• Overview of leading cast iron grades
• Solubility of nitrogen and hydrogen
• Interaction between the addition elements

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