The most commonly used inoculants for producing grey iron are ferrosilicon based, but also there are reports indicating that silicon carbide can act as inoculant. There are few published studies of fading and nucleation sites of graphite when silicon carbide is used as inoculant, thus the understanding of the inoculation effect of silicon carbide is incomplete. To study these two aspects, fading and graphite nucleation sites, an ASTM class 35B grey iron inoculated with silicon carbide was produced and characterized. The results were compared with an ASTM class 35B grey iron inoculated with a ferrosilicon base inoculant and without inoculation. It was found that the effect of the silicon carbide was comparable to the ferrosilicon base inoculant and fading was similar. In addition, the graphite nucleation sites in the grey iron inoculated with silicon carbide were irregular shaped manganese sulfides larger than the nuclei in the grey iron inoculated with ferrosilicon, which suggest a similar nucleation mechanism for both inoculants.
En el presente trabajo se estudió la influencia de la estructura de partida de un acero alto C – alto Si, as-cast (AC), deformado en caliente (DC) y homogenizada (H), sobre la microestructura producto de aplicar tratamientos térmicos de baja temperatura: austemperado y Quenching and Partitioning (Q&P). Para tal efecto, se austemperaron muestras del a 300°C durante 120 min y se trataron también, vía Q&P, con el ciclo de QT a 180°C/2 min., y PT a 200°C/30min. La caracterización del material se realizó por medio de microscopía óptica (MO), microscopia electrónica de barrido (MEB), análisis de difracción de rayos X (DRX) y mediciones de microdureza Vickers. Los resultados mostraron que las muestras en estado AC y DC presentaron patrones de segregación marcados, lo que afectó las cinéticas de transformación en estado sólido y por ende favoreció un alto grado de heterogeneidad en la estructura final. Por su parte, las muestras H, no evidenciaron patrones de segregación y los niveles de transformación presentaron un alto grado de uniformidad en las estructuras bainíticas y martensítica producto de los ciclos térmicos aplicados.
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