Analysis of different approaches to model the austempering heat treatment of ductile irons

ADRIÁN D. BOCCARDO; DIEGO J. CELENTANO; PATRICIA M. DARDATI

Material Design & Processing Communications

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Año: 2020 p. 1 - 7

Austempered ductile iron is a metallic alloy of technological interest. Currently, the part design is added by means of simulations performed by using different types of models. This work aims at comparing three models respectively based on the Avrami´s equation, spherical representative volume elements, and cellular automata, all of them able to compute the phase evolutions during the ausferritic and martensitic transformations. The models are employed to reproduce the experimental heat treatments where their strongness and weakness are discussed.