Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014
Contents From the Editor: Teach Your Childeren.......................................................5
The Continuing Evolution of MgFeSi Treatments for Ductile and CG Irons ........................................................................................7
The designated technical papers published in this edition were previously presented and published as part of the Keith Millis Symposium on Ductile Cast Iron, October 15- 17, 2013 in Nashville, TN. The symposium was co-sponsored by the American Foundry Society and Ductile Iron Society. These papers are reprinted with permission for the conference proceedings.
Catherine Hartung, Elkem AS Douglas White, Kenneth Copi and Matthew Liptak, Elkem Materials Inc. Robert Logan, Elkem Metal Canada
Filtering a Heavy-Section DI Casting—New Opportunities...............17 Thorsten Reuther, hofmann CERAMIC GmbH
Advanced Fracture Mechanics Testing of DCI— A Key to Valuable Toughness Data ................................................................25 Wolfram Baer, BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Solution Strengthened Ferritic Ductile Cast Iron Properties, Production and Application ..............................................................................35
Wolfram Stets and Herbert Löblich, Institut für GieBereitechnik Gert Gassner and Peter Schumacher, Österreichisches Giebereiinstitut
Novel Approaches to Analyze Structure of Ductile Iron.......................41 Simon Lekakh and Mark Harris, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Inter-Laboratory Study of Nodularity and Nodule Count of Ductile Iron by Image Analysis.......................................................................51
Graphite Shape Deviation Comparable to Chunky Graphite
Serge Grenier and Chantal Labrecque, Rio Tinto Iron and Titanium; Amit Bhattacharjee, John Deere; Richard Gundlach, Element; Bente Kroka, Elkem Technology; Mike Riabov, Neena Foundry
Photo compliments of
Wolfram Stets, Herbert Löblich, Gert Gassner and Peter Schumacher,
from the paper “Solution Strengthened Ferritic Ductile Cast Iron (DIN EN 1563: 2012) Properties, Production and Application”
The Importance of Rare Earth Contribution from Nodulizing Alloys and Their Subsequent Effect on the Inoculation of Ductile Iron......65
Iulian Riposan, Mihai Chisamera, Valentin Uta and Stelian Stan, POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest; Rodney Naro and David Williams, ASI International Ltd
Equivalent Charpy-V Impact Criteria for Nodular Cast Iron..............81 Kim R., W. Wallin, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Metalcasting Industry Research...................................................................87
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