英文材科基实验报告Quantitative Determination of Volume Fraction of Graphite in Ductile Iron.doc

Quantitative Determination of Volume Fraction of Graphite in Ductile Iron (School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China) Abstract The relative amount of the graphite phase in a ductile iron sample can be quantitatively determined with both the manual point counting method and the automatic imagine analysis method. In the experiment, I analyzed the micro-structure of the ductile iron sample. I used two different methods to determine the volume fraction of graphite of the ductile iron sample with the serial number 1. One of the methods is the manual point counting method which takes advantages of reticle with an orthogonl grid placed in one of the eyepiece. The other is the automatic image analysis method which uses Image Tool to analysis a set of micro-graphs of the sample. The volume fraction of graphite was determined as 9.67%±0.52% and 9.67% ±0.23% from the manual method and the automatic method, respectively. Basing on the assumption that the ductile iron is absolutely binary all, the carbon content of the manual counting method and the automatic method is 2.84 % and 2.85% , separately. There exist some errors in both the manual method and automatic method. Key Words: Graphite, Volume Fraction, Ductile iron, Quantitative microscopy, Stereology Introduction The experiment we conducted mainly uses the principle of the materials stereology, especially the principle related to the photomicrography and quantitative microscopy. The stereology for materials science refers to the quantitative method and theory to obtain the three-dimensional information such as the volume fraction or the amount of one certain interface in unit volume by analyzing the two-dimensional section or the projection image. The quantitative metallography means the kind of metallographic technique that determine the micro-structure of materials quantitatively(estimate and measure the size of grain/ the content of ea