Synthetic Fe-C-Si alloys having various oxygen contents and commercial pig irons were melted under low pressure for 5 to 60 mn at the various temperature, and the change of structure, chemical composition and analytical oxygen amounts and others were examined.
Following results were obtained
(1) In the case of the melting by alumina crucible.
(i) The structure of Fe-C-Si alloys which were produced by the vacuum-melting for 5 mn at 1350 to 1600°C were undercooled fine granular graphite and ferrite matrix, having no relation with oxygen contents of original raw iron. In the case of the vacuum-melting for 10 mn or longer at 1350 to 1400°C, the structures obtained were also undercooled fine granular graphite and ferrite matrix, while in the temperature over 1450°C, it became undercooled white cast iron accompanied with temper carbon.
(ii) The amounts of elements such as C, Mn, S, N
2 and H
2 in iron decreased by the vacuum-melting, however Si and Al increased with the increase of treating time and temperature, being caused with the reaction of metal and crucible.
(iii) In hyper-eutectic cast iron treated by the vacuum-melting, primary graphite was spheroidized by inoculation of 0.2%Fe-Si, but by inoculation of 0.5%Ca-Si, all graphite was easily spheroidized.
(iv) In the case of commercial pig iron even the vacuum-melting at 1550°C, for 60 mn., it was difficult to produce the structure of undercooled white cast iron.
(2) In the case of the melting by graphite crucible.
The iron was supersaturated by the recarbonization from graphite crucible, the structure was composed of undercooled fine granular graphite with extremely coarsed primary flake graphite and ferrite matrix. The undercooled white cast iron could not be obtained.
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