The effects of the inoculation of ferro-silicon on the graphite form of vacuum-molten iron were researched. The rusults obtained are as follows.
1) When the grains of ferro-silicon were added on the vacuum-molten iron, the innumerable graphite nuclei, from which the spheroidal graphite grew, deposited in the high silicon parts segregated in the molten iron.
2) Spherpidal graphites were counted up in the molten iron when ferro-silicon was added.
3) Graphites crystalizing during solidification showed a tendency to take a flake form or a fine eutectic form, except the ones depositing on the existing spheroidal graphite nuclei.
4) The larger the grain size of ferro-silicon was, the more the silicon segregated in the molten, and the tendency to deposit a spheroidal graphite nucleus was increased.
5) With the increase of addition amount of ferro-silicon and the lowering of addition temperature, the segregation of silicon in molten iron increased and it contributed to deposit a spheroidal graphite nucleus.
Considerating the results of various experiments obtained above, the fundamental conditions of generation of spheroidal graphite were summarized as follows :
1) The oxygen content and sulphur content of molten iron should be kept under a limitted value.
2) The graphite should be precipitated directly from the molten iron in a short time.
From the above consideration, it was deduced that the graphite form (whether the graphite grew in the spheroidal form or the flake form) depended up on the change of surface tension between molten iron and graphite.
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