Information about malleable cast iron

Malleable cast iron is essentially white cast iron which has been modified by heat treatment. It is formed when white cast iron is heated to around 960 deg C and then left to cool very slowly. Graphite separates out much more slowly in this case, so that surface tension has time to form it into spheroidal particles rather than flakes. Due to their lower aspect ratio, spheroids are relatively short and far from one another, and have a lower cross section vis-a-vis a propagating crack. They also have blunt boundaries, as opposed to flakes, which alleviates the stress concentration problems faced by the gray cast iron. In general, the properties of malleable cast iron are more like mild steel. There is a limit to how large a part can be cast in malleable cast iron, since it is made from white cast iron.

The white cast iron is converted to malleable cast iron by a two stage heat treatment process to a condition having most of its carbon content in the form of irregularly shaped nodules of graphite, called temper carbon. The structure of malleable cast iron consists of ferrite, pearlite and tempered carbon as compared to the fracture inducing lamellar structure of gray cast iron.

Malleable cast irons are a class of cast irons with mechanical strength properties that are intermediate to those of gray or ductile cast irons. The microstructure provides it properties that make malleable cast irons ideal for applications where toughness and machinability are required, and for components that are required to have some ductility or be malleable so that they can be bent or flexed into position without cracking.

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