Original scientific paper

Erosion of ductile cast iron with quartz particles

Krešimir Grilec ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Ivana Lučića 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Suzana Jakovljević orcid.org/0000-0001-5907-6913 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Ivana Lučića 5, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Denis Prusac ; Technical school Zadar, Nikole Tesle 9c, 23000 Zadar, Croatia

Abstract

Ductile cast iron has high fatigue strength due to the spherical shape of graphite, especially after quenching and tempering. Higher toughness can be achieved by austempering. One of the advantages of ductile cast iron in relation to other cast irons is its good wear resistance. In the experiments, samples of ductile cast iron and austempered ductile cast iron were eroded with quartz sand particles at six different angles of impact (15°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 75° and 90°). The test results were presented as the loss of mass which occured during the test. Testing with quartz sand shows that the particle erosion resistance of ductile cast iron was better than that of austempered ductile iron for all impact angles except for 60°. The maximum measured wears of ductile cast iron and austempered ductile iron were at 75°.

Keywords

austempered ductile cast iron; ductile cast iron; particle erosion

Hrčak ID:

50599

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/50599

Publication date:

31.3.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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