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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Antonín Záděra, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Entry knowledge

Basics of chemistry, knowlidges of structure and properties of metals and alloys

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit: Attendandance and appropriate knowledges in courses, passing 2 tests in the course
of semester
Exam: Credit, numerical part of exam, verbal part of exam
2 tests in the period of semestr, compensation of absence – by personal agreement with teacher

Aims

The aim of course is to get knowlidges about structure and properties of different cast iron grades, principle of melting process in particular melting furnaces, metal quality control and analysis of metallurgical defects.
Ability to operate metalurgical processes by melting different cast iron grades, heat treatment and quality control

The study programmes with the given course

Programme N-SLE-P: Foundry Technology, Master's, 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