Technical Innovations
December 2006
Casting iron for a role in suspension components
Engineers are often hesitant to design suspension components made of nodular cast-iron materials because local material properties are thought to be more brittle, especially under the extreme loads of heavy-duty vehicles, compared to forged materials with equal strength properties. Recent developments in cast-iron materials, produced via enhanced casting processes, allow component properties to catch up with properties of forged component, say researchers from MAN Nutzfahrzeug, Claas Guss, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability.
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