This article presents an overview on modeling of micromechanical failure processes in
nodular cast iron, a material used for many engineering applications. Depending on the …

Most of engineering structures and components are made of ductile materials, while fracture
mechanics tools have been mostly developed for brittle materials. This article investigates …

Miniature-testing is essential to characterize the plastic response of materials for which the
extraction of conventional full-size specimens is impossible. Examples are weld regions with …

The nucleation, evolution and coalescence of voids is the well-established mechanism
leading to ductile fracture under tension-dominated loading conditions. From a theoretical …

Multiaxial fatigue tests were carried out on plain and notched specimens extracted from EN-
GJS-600-3 pearlitic DCI heavy-section castings. Two notches of different severities were …

Ductile cast iron is hard to be remanufactured without preheating and post heat treatment
owing to the complicated phase evolution and a great tendency to form chilled structure …

In view of characterizing the local plasticity and fracture properties in structures with material
property gradients at the millimeter scale, a micro-tension and micro-shear testing technique …

In this paper, four material variants of an EN-GJS-400-type ferritic ductile cast iron (DCI) are
produced by varying solidification time and chemical composition. In this way, experimental …

Large-scale components such as hubs in wind turbines are often made of cast iron to
minimize the production costs. One of the common challenges in the casting process of such …

It is very easy to form hard and brittle phases (chilled structure and martensite) in the
interface zone during the welding and cladding process of nodular cast iron which always …