Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Nitrogen Fissures Defects in Iron Castings: Back To
Nitrogen Fissures Defects in Iron Castings: Back To
Introduction
in figure 4, this is particularly so in heavy casting sections.
itrogen fissure defects can occur in grey iron castings Whilst this graphite form results in an increase in tensile
Figure 1. Typical appearance of nitrogen fissures in an iron casting Figure 2. Typical appearance of nitrogen fissure blowholes
64 www.metals.rala.com.au
Figure 4. Micrograph of high nitrogen cast iron showing compac-
tion of graphite flakes