Effect of Heat Treatments on the Microstructure, Corrosion Resistance and Wear Behaviour of Bainitic/Martensitic Ductile Iron Under Dry Sliding Friction

Khidasheli, N, Gvazava, S, Zakharov, G, Chikhradze, M, Batako, ADL, Ahuir-Torres, JI, Pazhani, A and Xavior, MA (2025) Effect of Heat Treatments on the Microstructure, Corrosion Resistance and Wear Behaviour of Bainitic/Martensitic Ductile Iron Under Dry Sliding Friction. Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing, 9 (5).

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Abstract

The development of high-strength cast irons with multiphase metal matrix structures is one of the new areas of modern materials science and mechanical engineering. This is so because of the high dissipative properties of such materials, which, in turn, ensure an improvement in their functional characteristics. It is known that one of the effective methods for obtaining alloys with a heterogeneous structure is a multi-stage heat treatment. Therefore, this study aimed to enhance the corrosion and friction properties of high-strength cast irons by combining different processing methods to create a bainite-martensitic matrix. High-strength cast irons with high ductility micro-alloyed with boron were chosen as the object for research. The experiments studied the effect of various types of multi-stage heat treatment on the structural features, tribological properties, hardness and corrosion resistance. The cast irons were quenched in water or liquid nitrogen after a controlled duration of isothermal exposure at different temperatures. It was established that cooling of isothermally hardened samples in liquid nitrogen makes it possible to effectively engineer the morphology and amount of the formed martensitic phase. It was observed that the high-strength cast irons with 10–15% lower bainite, residual austenite and martensite have the best frictional characteristics. This innovative method allowed the quenching of cast iron directly into liquid nitrogen without violent cracking.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	40 Engineering; 4016 Materials Engineering; 4017 Mechanical Engineering; 4016 Materials engineering; 4017 Mechanical engineering
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions:	Engineering
Publisher:	MDPI
Date of acceptance:	22 April 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	28 May 2025
Date Deposited:	28 May 2025 13:16
Last Modified:	28 May 2025 13:30
DOI or ID number:	10.3390/jmmp9050145
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/26448

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