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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Metallurgy of Cast Irons

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 618-1804/01
Abbreviation ML
Course title Metallurgy of Cast Irons
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Metallurgy and Foundry
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Jiří Hampl, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

· Partition classification of cast iron, mechanical properties, the proportion of iron alloy iron castings.
· Raw materials for melting iron, steel stock, the alloying elements, slag´s ingredients.
· melting units for melting iron.
Melting in cupola.
· melting in induction and arc furnaces, fiery furnace.
· Changes of chemical composition, influencing the crystallization process, etc.

Literature

GOODRICH, G. M.: Iron Castings Enginering Handbook. American Foundry Society. Schaumburg, Illinois, USA, ISBN 0-87433-260-5, 2006, 418s.

Advised literature

NEUMANN, F.: Gusseisen, Scmelztechnik, Metallurgie, Schmelzbehandlung.Renningen-Malmsheim,SRN, 1999,
452 s.