Course detail
Metallurgy of Cast Iron
FSI-PLLAcad. year: 2023/2024
Grades and properties of cast iron, structure, crystallization. Chemical composition. Mechanical, physical a technological properties. Alloyed cast irons. Melting equipment, metallurgical processes. Production of lammelar graphit iron, spheroidal, vermicular and malleable iron. Raw materials, composition of charge. Control of chemical composition, thermoanalysis, control of mechanical properties. Metallurgicaly based defects.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
of semester
Exam: Credit, numerical part of exam, verbal part of exam
2 tests in the period of semestr, compensation of absence - by personal agreement with teacher
Aims
Ability to operate metalurgical processes by melting different cast iron grades, heat treatment and quality control
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Iron Casting Handbook, Iron Casting Soc., Inc. 1981
Roučka,J.:Metalurgie litin, PC-DIR s.r.o,Brno,1998, ISBN 80-214-1263-1
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme N-SLE-P Master's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Crystallisation, inoculation, structure controle
3. Chemical composition, properties,
4. Grades of iron according to EN ČSN standarts
5. Charge material
6. Cupolas, construction, metallurgy,
7. Induction furnaces, roll furnaces
8. Crystalization of spheroidal graphite iron
9. Production of spheroidal graphite iron
10. Production of vermicular graphite iron and malleable iron
11. Alloyed irons
12. Quality control
13. Heat treatment
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Tests of mechanical properties
3. Metallography, preparing of samples
4. Evaluating of structures
5. Calculation of charge
6. Excursion to a gray iron foundry
7. Calculation of charge by melting spheroidal graphite iron
8. Excursion to a spheroidal graphite iron foundry
9. Metallurgical defects - identification, causes
10. Influence of inoculation and solidification conditions on structure of GJL
11. Cast iron melting in a induction furnace
12. Thermal analysis
13. Spheroidal graphite iron melting