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Austempered Ductile Iron Versus Aluminum: No Contest!
By: John Keough
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Contact: Vasko Popovski
Document Type: White Papers
Lightweight, strong, recyclable: these are all terms that are liberally applied in describing aluminum and its commercial alloys. Much has been published and broadcast about the virtues of aluminum. In some industries, it seems that materials such as cast irons have been relegated to the technological scrap heap. Well, get comfortable and open your mind. We're going to talk about the high performance material that they didn't teach you about in school, a material that is stronger per pound and lower in cost than aluminum. You're thinking: it must be some space age ceramic, or some new, high-tech metal matrix composite. Wrong. It's the natural composite material, Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI)
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