Ductile iron has good mechanical properties. In some cases pieces made by casting of ductile iron replace forging pieces.
What are the reasons to forge a casting piece?
What happens to the cost of manufacture?
A what series of production these combined processes can be apply?
Some papers about this combined processes?.
Thanks you in advance.
Normally high strength parts originally manufactured by forging are replaced only for austempered ductile iron. If we forge a ductile cast iron, we will going to change the form and distribution of graphite nodules, affecting homogeneity and mechanical properties like ductility, impact strength, UTS and YS.
Thanks you Sandro.
Do you have some paper about this type of "replacement"?.
1) Contribution of forming parameters on the properties of hot rolled ductile cast iron alloys, Materials Letters, Volume 31, Issues 1–2, May 1997, Pages 145-150
T. El-Bitar, E. El-Banna
2) Processing Maps for Use in Hot Working of Ductile Iron, Journal of Iron and Steel Research, International, Volume 18, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 48-51,72
Xin ZHAO, Xiao-ling YANG, Tian-fu JING
I hope that can help you. All the best!
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