“…Besides austempering temperature, the choice of austempering time could also influence material properties in ferrous metals. Studies have shown that increase in austempering time have led to improvements in properties like fatigue life, tensile strength, elongation, impact strength and yield strength while hardness of the ferrous metals studied have decreased with increase in austempering time (Akor & Tuleun, 2014;Felipe Dias, Ribeiro, Carmo, & Vilela, 2012;Han et al, 2012). Akor and Tuleun, (2014) observed austempered ductile iron specimens at different austempering time of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5hrs over same austenitizing temperature of 950 o C and recorded increases in yield strength, tensile strength, elongation and impact energy (Akor & Tuleun, 2014).…”