Near Net Shape (NNS) manufacturing produces the engineering components closer to its final specification in single stage or minimum number of stages. ADI process technology is one of the NNS manufacturing technologies, currently being followed by the industries for manufacturing of engineering components at competitive price. Austempered Ductile Iron is a new class of engineering material which...

Several experimental techniques are used for phase identification and microstructure characterization of austempered vermicular cast irons (XRD, SEM, TEM and Mössbauer spectroscopy). Acicular structures were found to be composed by ferrite and austenite with average sizes compatible with those reported for bainitic ferrite in steels. An assessment of the free energy change involved in the auste...

the influence of aluminium on the microstructure of austempered ductile cast iron (adi) has been studied. the presence of well distributed graphite in the matrix, and a relatively high volume fraction of retained austenite are responsible for the good mechanical properties of the aluminium alloyed austempered ductile irons including excellent wear resistance, higher resistance to thermal shock,...

In the present paper, medium-C Si-rich steel with a quenched martensite microstructure was heated to intercritical annealing temperatures at 750 °C, 760 °C and 770 after warm rolling deformation obtain ferrite varying volume fractions. Subsequently, bainite/ferrite multiphase microstructures were attained via austempering near Ms temperature. The of test different heat treatments characterized ...