For decades, the use of aluminum, titanium and magnesium components has been regarded as a universal remedy for optimizing the weight of sophisticated structural components. ADI, a new cast iron grade, has been available as Carbon Steel Casting Manufacturers a design material for some years now, which, in the triad of costs, resilience and production reliability availability, repeatedly reduces this trend to absurdity.When selecting a suitable material, the designer is spoilt for choice: either high-strength, but brittle, or tough, but less rigid. An optimization of these opposing properties is not possible with conventional construction materials.
The group of ADI cast iron materials is opening up new possibilities in this area of conflict ADI stands for Austempered Ductile Iron and refers to heat-treated ductile cast iron which is twice as rigidas conventional ductile cast iron with spheroidal graphite at the same elongation at break The tensile strength is comparable to that of many steel gradeswith exponentially superior shaping properties. Compared to spheroidal Alloy Steel Casting Suppliers graphite iron, the fatigue strength is almost twice as high. As a typical cast-iron material, ADI has a below that of steel. Due to its high graphite content it also offers the good damping capacity typical for cast iron.