Carbon steel could be divided according to different carbon content:C≤0.20%-low carbon steel investment castings;C:0.2~0.5%- medium carbon steel;C≥0.5%-high carbon steel.Steel investment castings.Cast steel according to the chemical composition is divided into:carbon steel investment castings and alloy steel investment casting.Now we would like to analyse the characteristics of low ally steel investment castings,special steel investment castings and carbon steel investment castings.
The quality of investment castings raw material will have a great effect on investment casting quality.It is uncertain that choosing super material will improve production costs of investment castings.
Common defects of investment castings include dross and inclusions, blowholes, shrinkage porosity, shrinkage cracks, cold shuts, hot cracking/hot tearing/hot shortness, miss runs,etc. Such defects will affect the surface roughness and also the strength of the castings. So, all foundries pay lots of costs and time to solve such investment casting defects.
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Cast iron is iron carbon alloy which carbon content is greater than 2%.Carbon exist in cast iron mostly as graphite morphology,sometimes as cementite.In addition to carbon,also contains 1%~3% of silicon in cast iron,and manganese,phosphorus,sulfur and other elements.
Gray cast iron is a kind of cast iron. Carbon is present in cast iron as flake graphite. The fracture is gray. Good casting, cutting performance, good wear resistance. Used for manufacturing frame, box, etc. The graphite of gray cast iron is flake, the effective bearing area is relatively small, and the graphite tip is easy to produce stress concentration, so the strength, plasticity and toughness of gray cast iron are lower than other cast iron. But it has excellent vibration damping, low notch sensitivity and high wear resistance.