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Keith Mills Symposium on Ductile Cast Iron 2013

Nashville, Tennessee, USA 15-17 October 2013

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Table of Contents

KEITH MILLIS SYMPOSIUM ONDUCTILE CAST IRON October 15-17, 2013 • Loews Vanderbilt Hotel • Nashville, TN

1. Inter-Laboratory Study of the Determination of Nodularity andNodule Count of Ductile Iron by Image Analysis ...................................................................... 1

Grenier, Bhattacharjee, Gundlach, Kroka, LaBrecque, Riabov

2. The Continuing Evolution of MgFeSi Treatments forDuctile and Compacted Graphite Irons .................................................................................... 14

Hartung, White, Copi, Liptak, Logan

3. Filtering a Heavy Section Ductile Iron Casting—New Opportunities ...................................22 Reuther

4. Thermal Analysis and Process Control for Compacted Graphite Iron and Ductile Iron ...... 32 Dawson, Popelar

5. Optimized Lifetime Prediction of Ductile Iron and CGI Castings ........................................40Heisser, Hepp, Sturm, Thomser

6. Light-Weight Runner Systems That Cut Application Problems .......................................... 47 Shaner, Dickinson, Adams

7. Iron Turbulance Analysis via Foundry Water Model I: Introduction .................................... 54 Pinto, Alquist

8. Experiences in Identifying and Reducing Ductile Iron Casting Defects ............................. 62 Alagarsamy, Kumar

9. The Effect of Copper on the Ferrite—Pearlite Ratio in Ductile Iron .................................... 86 Samuel, Viswanathan

10. Ductile Iron, Isothermed Ductile Iron, and Austempered Ductile IronMaterial Structural Design.......................................................................................................... 98

Zanardi

11. Advanced Fracture Mechanics Testing of DCI—A Key to Valuable Toughness Data ...........................................................................................121

Baer

12. As-Cast Ausferritic Ductile Iron ................................................................................................131de la Torre, Stefanescu, Hartmann, Suarez

13. The Stuff Matters—Is Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) a Green Alternative? ..................142 Keough, Hayrynen

14. The Importance of Rare Earth Contribution from Nodulizing Alloys andTheir Subsequent Effect on the Inoculation of Ductile Iron ................................................154

Riposan, Chisamera, Uta, Stan, Naro, Williams

15. Optimization of Chemical Compositions of Ductile Iron ..................................................... 174 Pokusová, Murgaš

16. Solution Strengthened Ferritic Ductile Cast Iron According to DIN EN 1563: 2012—Properties, Production and Application ..................................................................................181

Stets, Löblich, Gassner, Schumacher

17. Proposed Theory on the Mechanism for Spheroidal Graphite Formation in Iron (with reviews) ..............................................................................................................................191 Campbell

18. A New Model for the Solidification of Ductile Iron ...............................................................214 Viswanathan, Samuel

19. Novel Approaches to Analyze the Structure of Ductile Iron .............................................. 224 Lekakh, Harris

20. Review of Microstructural Features of Chunky Graphite in Ductile Cast Irons ................ 232Lacaze, Magnusson Åberg, Sertucha

Note: The table of contents does not necessarily follow the order of presentations as listed on the agenda. Only paper presentations have been published.