TY - JOUR N2 - In this study, Taguchi method is used to find out the effect of micro alloying elements like vanadium, niobium and titanium on the hardness and tensile strength of the normalized cast steel. Based on this method, plan of experiments were made by using orthogonal arrays to acquire the data on hardness and tensile strength. The signal to noise ratio and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are used to investigate the effect of these micro alloying elements on these two mechanical properties of the micro alloyed normalized cast steel. The results indicated that in the micro alloyed normalized cast steel both these properties increases when compared to non-micro-alloyed normalized cast steel. The effect of niobium addition was found to be significantly higher to obtain higher hardness and tensile strength when compared to other micro alloying elements. The maximum hardness of 200HV and the maximum tensile strength of 780 N/mm2 were obtained in 0.05%Nb addition micro alloyed normalized cast steel. Micro-alloyed with niobium normalized cast steel have the finest and uniform microstructure and fine pearlite colonies distributed uniformly in the ferrite. The optimum condition to obtain higher hardness and tensile strength were determined. The results were verified with experiments. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/102027/PDF/afe-2017-0070.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/102027 PY - 2017 IS - No 2 DO - 10.1515/afe-2017-0070 KW - mechanical properties KW - Normalized cast steel KW - Micro-alloying KW - Taguchi method KW - Microstructure A1 - Chokkalingam, B. A1 - Raja, V. A1 - Anburaj, J. A1 - Immanual, R. A1 - Dhineshkumar, M. PB - The Katowice Branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences VL - vol. 17 DA - 2017 T1 - Optimization of Micro-Alloying Elements for Mechanical Properties in Normalized Cast Steel Using Taguchi Technique UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/102027 T2 - Archives of Foundry Engineering ER -