Low temperature strength and stress–strain properties of gray cast irons were examined under tension and compression. The strain gauge method was employed on pearlitic and ferritic irons in the temperature range of +20°C to −196°C. Just as reported so far, the present experiments showed that the tensils strength, the proof strength and the elastic modulous increased by lowering the test temperature. Down to the temperature of −150°C, the tensile fracture strain decreased indistinctly in most irons expect for the ferritic one which showed the maximum value at −100°C. At −196°C, the fracture strain was reduced to as small as 0.4% in all irons. The stress-strain curves shifted to a higher stress level by decreasing the temperature, i.e., gradually down to −150°C and rapidly at −196°C. The shift of the curves were almost at the same rates both in tension and in compression. Such characteristics of gray cast irons at low temperatures were well expressed by factors a and b of the hyperbolic formula
σ=b
ε/(a+
ε) which approximates the stress-strain relation. Furthermore, SEM fractography revealed that the transition in the fracture appearance occured at about −150°C in ferritic irons, and in a ferritic iron there were some dimple patterns even at −196°C.
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