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Grades of high silicon ductile iron offer excellent combinations of static strength and ductility as well as good machinability due to their fully ferritic, solution strengthened matrix. As a result of elevated silicon contents, however, the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature in the Charpy impact test is significantly increased. Thus, minimum required Charpy impact energies cannot be met for many applications by using high silicon ductile iron. Therefore, alloys with lower strength and higher toughness properties are commonly used for many technical applications. The enormous lightweight construction potential of high silicon ductile iron can therefore not be fully exploited. The present investigation pursues the metallurgical approach of partially substituting silicon with molybdenum as an alternative strengthening element in order to improve the toughness properties while maintaining similar static mechanical properties. Molybdenum serves as a carbide-stabilising element in ductile iron, while simultaneously promoting ferrite formation and is therefore regarded to be suitable alloying element. In Charpy impact tests, the ductile-to-brittle transition temperature could be reduced by about 55 °C by reducing the silicon content to 2.95 wt% and adding 0.21 wt% molybdenum compared to a high silicon alloy. Additionally, it was possible to mathematically describe the transition behaviour of the studied alloys using nonlinear regression functions and to achieve a sufficient correlation of empirically determined and calculated data. This present metallurgical concept offers a promising metallurgical tool for further improving the toughness properties of alloyed ductile iron.

Mechanical Properties and Impact Toughness of Molybdenum Alloyed Ductile Iron