Course detail

Metallurgy of Cast Iron

FSI-PLL Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester

Grades and properties of cast iron, structure, crystallization. Chemical composition. Mechanical, physical a technological properties. Alloyed cast irons. Melting equipment, metallurgical processes. Production of lamellar  spheroidal and vermicular graphite iron and malleable iron. Raw materials, composition of charge. Control of chemical composition, thermoanalysis, control of mechanical properties. Metallurgicaly based defects.

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Antonín Záděra, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Prerequisites

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Language of instruction

Czech

Aims

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-SLE-P: Foundry Technology, Master's
branch ---: no specialisation, 6 credits, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Syllabus

1. Types and structures of cast iron
2. Crystallisation, inoculation, structure controle
3. Chemical composition, properties,
4. Grades of iron according to EN ČSN standarts
5. Charge material
6. Cupolas, construction, metallurgy,
7. Induction furnaces, roll furnaces
8. Crystalization of spheroidal graphite iron
9. Production of cast iron with lamellar and spheroidal graphite
10. Production of vermicular graphite iron and malleable iron
11. Alloyed irons
12. Quality control
13. Heat treatment

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Equilibrium diagrams, Fe-C diagram

  2. Equilibrium diagrams, Fe Fe3C diagram

  3. Melting of grey cast iron and technological tests

  4. Preparation of metallographic samples

  5. Metallographic evaluation of the cast iron structures

  6. Excursion to a grey cast iron foundry

  7. Calculation of charges for cast iron melting

  8. Excursion to a ductile cast iron foundry

  9. Calculation of the charge for melting of ductile cast iron

  10. Metallurgical defects of cast iron castings, appearance, causes of occurrence

  11. Melting of cast iron with nodular graphite

  12. Thermal analysis of cast iron

  13. Credit