Thin Wall Iron Castings
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 7051
Special Issue Editor
Interests: thermal analysis; solidification; aluminum alloys; cast iron
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Dear Colleagues,
The excellent property combinations of thin-wall ductile iron castings, including thin-wall austempered ductile iron (TWADI) and alloyed thin-wall ductile iron (e.g., high-silicon ductile iron and high-nickel ductile iron), have opened new possibilities for ductile iron to replace steel and aluminum castings in many engineering applications, with considerable cost benefits. High-performance thin-walled ductile and gray iron castings are widely used for exhaust manifolds, rocker arms, pump bodies, control arms, steering knuckles, mounts and brackets, disc brakes, flywheel and pressure plates of the clutch cover, pump bodies, and cylinder blocks, and so forth. Thin wall iron castings are therefore considered as a potential material for lightweight components with good mechanical and utility properties at relatively low cost. The most important challenges for thin wall iron castings, which solidify at high cooling rates, are structure and properties stability, tendency toward carbides, and defect formations and high dimensional tolerances.
The Special Issue “Thin Wall Iron Castings” aims to collect articles connected with shaping the structure and properties of thin-walled iron castings. It focuses, in particular, on the nucleation and growth processes during casting solidification (including numerical modeling) and the modification, inoculation, science, and engineering of high-quality Si–Mo, ADI, IDI, etc. thin-walled ductile iron castings.
Prof. Marcin Górny
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Thin sections
- Primary austenite grain
- Graphite eutectic
- Phase transformation
- Modeling
- Ductile iron
- Modification and inoculation
- Austempered ductile iron
- Mechanical properties
