{"id":8471,"date":"2018-12-05T12:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/hts-new\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/35950849\/NEWS\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:48:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:48:53","slug":"one-minute-mentor-heat-treating-and-properties-of-ductile-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/hts\/one-minute-mentor-heat-treating-and-properties-of-ductile-iron\/","title":{"rendered":"One-Minute Mentor: Heat Treating and Properties of Ductile Iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">The basic structural differences between the ferritic and austenitic classes are shown in the graph. It shows a continuous cooling transformation (CCT) diagram and cooling curves for furnace cooling, air cooling, and quenching.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">&nbsp;It can be seen that slow furnace cooling results in a ferritic matrix (the desired product of annealing), whereas the cooling curve for air cooling, or normalizing, results in a pearlitic matrix, and quenching produces a matrix microstructure consisting mostly of martensite with some retained austenite. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\">Tempering softens the normalized and quenched conditions, resulting in microstructures consisting of the matrix ferrite with small particles of iron carbide (or secondary graphite). Actual annealing cycles usually involve more than just furnace cooling, depending on alloy content and prior structure.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\"><span style=\"line-height:normal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/matdata-s.asminternational.org\/hbk\/do\/section\/content\/V04D\/D00\/A01\/index.htm\" target=\"page\" title=\"Volume 4D, Heat Treating of Irons and Steels\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 4D, Heat Treating of Irons and Steels<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt\"> -&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/matdata-s.asminternational.org\/hbk\/do\/section\/content\/V04D\/D00\/A01\/index.htm\" target=\"page\" title=\"Volume 4D, Heat Treating of Irons and Steels\" rel=\"noopener\"> Heat Treatiment of Cast Irons -&gt; <\/a>-&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/matdata-s.asminternational.org\/hbk\/do\/section\/content\/V04D\/D05\/A03\/index.htm\" target=\"page\" title=\"Heat Treating and Properties of Ductile Iron\" rel=\"noopener\">Heat Treating and Properties of Ductile Iron<\/a> -&gt; General Characteristics <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:.0001pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The basic structural differences between the ferritic and austenitic classes are shown in the continuous cooling transformation (CCT) diagram and cooling curves for furnace cooling, air cooling, and quenching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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