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Title:
Cast irons
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ASM specialty handbook
Publication Information:
Materials Park, OH : ASM International, 1996
ISBN:
9780871705648
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Summary

Cast iron offers the design engineer a low-cost, high-strength material that can be easily melted and poured into a wide variety of useful, and sometimes complex, shapes. This latest handbook from ASM covers the entire spectrum of one of the most widely used and versatile of all engineered materials.

The reader will find the basic, but vital, information on metallurgy, solidification characteristics, and properties. Extensive reviews are presented on the low-alloy gray, ductile, compacted graphite, and malleable irons. New and expanded material has been added covering high-alloy white irons used for abrasion resistance and high-alloy graphitic irons for heat and corrosion resistance. Also discussed are melting furnaces and foundry practices such as melting, inoculation, alloying, pouring, gating and rising, and molding. Heat treating practices including stress relieving, annealing, normalizing, hardening and tempering, autempering (of ductile irons), and surface-hardening treatments are covered, too.

ASM Specialty Handbook: Cast Irons helps the reader learn about routine nondestructive testing to ensure the necessary casting quality, along with failure and metallograph analysis. Finally, property characteristics are thoroughly presented including physical, fatigue and fracture, and elevated-temperature.

Contents include: Classification and Basic Metallurgy, Solidification Characteristics, Metallurgy and Properties, Melting Furnaces and Foundry Practices, Heat Treating, Welding and Brazing, Machining and Grinding, Surface Engineering, Inspection and Analysis, Fatigue and Fracture Properties, Elevated-Temperature Properties, Physical Properties, Corrosion Behavior, Index.


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Cast Irons, the fifth volume in the ASM Specialty Handbook series, is an excellent source of information for the iron foundry industry. An introduction focusing on basic metallurgy and mechanical properties of various types of cast irons is followed by a section on foundry practice, including melting, inoculation, alloying, and casting. Further sections are dedicated to stress-relieving, annealing, normalizing, hardening, tempering, and other heat treatments; joining, machining, and grinding; and casting defects, inspection, quality control, and failure analysis. The last section focuses on fatigue, fracture, corrosion, and tribological properties. Each part contains articles that are well written with excellent illustrations. Very comprehensive index. An excellent resource for graduate students, faculty consulting with the iron industry, professional engineers, and users of iron castings. A must acquisition for academic or corporate libraries. T. Z. Kattamis University of Connecticut


Table of Contents

Introduction to Cast Ironsp. 1
Classification and Basic Metallurgy of Cast Ironsp. 3
Solidification Characteristics of Cast Ironsp. 16
Metallurgy and Properties of Gray Ironsp. 32
Metallurgy and Properties of Ductile Ironsp. 54
Metallurgy and Properties of Compacted Graphite Ironsp. 80
Metallurgy and Properties of Malleable Ironsp. 94
Metallurgy and Properties of High-Alloy White Ironsp. 107
Metallurgy and Properties of High-Alloy Graphitic Ironsp. 123
Foundry Practice for Cast Ironsp. 131
Foundry Practice for Cast Ironsp. 133
Casting Processesp. 155
Heat Treating of Cast Ironsp. 173
Introduction to Heat Treating of Cast Ironsp. 175
Heat Treating of Gray Ironsp. 179
Heat Treating of Ductile Ironsp. 192
Heat Treating of Malleable Ironsp. 205
Heat Treating of High-Alloy Ironsp. 219
Secondary Processing of Cast Ironsp. 215
Welding and Brazingp. 217
Machining and Grindingp. 244
Surface Engineeringp. 268
Inspection and Analysis of Cast Ironsp. 285
Casting Defects, Nondestructive Inspection, and Quality Control Measuresp. 2
Failure Analysis of Iron Castingsp. 322
Metallographic Analysis of Cast Ironsp. 356
Properties of Cast Ironsp. 393
Fatigue and Fracture Propertiesp. 395
Elevated-Temperature Propertiesp. 409
Physical Propertiesp. 428
Corrosion Behaviorp. 437
Tribological Behaviorp. 448
Indexp. 461