IDIT   25587
INSTITUTO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN INGENIERIA Y TECNOLOGIA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
A Microscale Model for Ausferritic Transformation of Austempered Ductile Irons
Autor/es:
CELENTANO DIEGO J.; BOCCARDO A. D.; GODOY LUIS A.; DARDATI PATRICIA M.
Revista:
METALLURGICAL AND MATERIALS TRANSACTIONS A-PHYSICAL METALLURGY AND MATERIALS SCIENCE
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2016 vol. 48 p. 524 - 535
ISSN:
1073-5623
Resumen:
This paper presents a new metallurgical model for the ausferritic transformation of ductile cast iron. The model allows predicting the evolution of phases in terms of the chemical composition, austenitization and austempering temperatures, graphite nodule count, and distribution of graphite nodule size. The ferrite evolution is predicted according to the displacive growth mechanism. A representative volume element is employed at the microscale to consider the phase distributions, the inhomogeneous austenite carbon content, and the nucleation of ferrite subunits at the graphite nodule surface and at the tips of existing ferrite subunits. The performance of the model is evaluated by comparison with experimental results. The results indicate that the increment of the ausferritic transformation rate, which is caused by increments of austempering temperature and graphite nodule count, is adequately represented by this model.