Archives
April 2015
ARTICLES
Controlling Distortion in Heat Treatment Through Press Quenching
Introduction Press quenching is a specialized quenching technique that may be utilized to minimize the distortion of complex geometrical components during heat treatment1. Distortion is routinely encountered in industrial heat treating operations, and is an especially important consideration where high accuracy, precision components are concerned. It can result from a wide variety of independent contributing […]
Producing Quality Parts in an Atmosphere Furnace: How to Optimize Your Quenching and Carburizing Processes
Throughout the manufacturing process, heat treatment is consistently viewed as a critical step for adding value to the parts produced. A part expensively manufactured by melting, hot rolling or forging, annealing, rough machining, teeth cutting and grinding is of little or no value without final heat treatment to produce the required metallurgical and mechanical properties. […]
A Time-Compressed Numerical Approach for Thermal Analysis of Preheating Process in Powder Metallurgy
Introduction Recent developments have been made in the field of powder metallurgy of materials to obtain advanced properties as compared to conventional manufacturing of materials for various applications. Powder metallurgy offers several advantages like improved strength and dimensional stability resulting in near net-shape products. Development of powder metallurgy techniques has resulted in new primary and […]
Stress Generation in an Axle Shaft during Induction Hardening
Introduction Induction hardening of steel components offers a fast heating rate, high efficiency, and the ability to heat locally. Induction hardening is a highly nonlinear multi-physical process with electro-magnetics, temperature, phase transformation, stress, and shape changes all occurring in the component. Compressive residual stress in the hardened case is beneficial to the high-cycle fatigue performance. […]
Enhanced Properties of 17-7 PH Stainless Steel
Background Precipitation-hardening (PH) stainless steel grade 17-7 PH is classified as a semiaustenitic stainless steel used extensively in aerospace and finding new applications in the medical industry. The material is most often used in sheet and strip form with springs, clips, and bellows being widely produced. The high alloy content of 17-7 provides excellent corrosion […]
NEWS
Solar Atmospheres Renews Sikorsky Aircraft Approval
Solar Atmospheres, Inc. announced that it has renewed an approved supplier status with Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation with a 2-year certification. Solar is approved to provide heat treatment of titanium, and carburizing grade materials and aircraft grade steels in accordance with various AMS and Sikorsky specifications. In addition to maintaining current approvals, Solar also gained full […]
April 15, 2015
Carbolite Gero Representation in North America
The recent merger of Carbolite GmbH, the German sales organization of the British company Carbolite Ltd., and Gero Hochtemperaturöfen GmbH into Carbolite Gero GmbH & Co. KG has given rise to the availability of the Gero high temperature and vacuum furnace systems to North America for the first time. With over 30 years of furnace […]
April 15, 2015
Ajax TOCCO Supplies Induction Heater for FBE Coating System at L.B. Foster
Ajax TOCCO Magnethermic recently shipped a 4,500 kW, 12 pulse, Pacer II induction heating system to the L.B. Foster Coated Products pipe coating facility in Birmingham, AL. The installation of this advanced equipment marks a key development in L.B. Foster’s capacity expansion plans. The high-speed coating plant is capable of applying Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) […]
April 15, 2015
SECO/WARWICK Allied Pvt. Ltd. has installed single chamber vacuum hardening furnace with high pressure gas quenching facility for Jyoti Heat Treat Industries
The Vector™line furnace with high-pressure gas quench facility is ideally suitable for Vacuum Hardening in an oxygen free environment. Heating can be performed in vacuum as well as under convection with partial pressure. Quench pressure can be adjusted from 1.5 bar to a maximum of 10 bar. The Vector furnace installed at Jyoti can also […]
April 15, 2015
Ipsen Kicks Off 2015 With Comprehensive Heat Treatment Course
Ipsen recently held their first Ipsen U class of 2015 in Cherry Valley, Illinois, allowing attendees to start the year with a broad overview of furnace equipment, processes, maintenance and more. Ipsen’s three-day-course provides attendees with a hands-on approach to learning while receiving qualified tips and knowledge directly from the experts. Participants in the February […]
April 15, 2015
PRODUCT SHOWCASE: Special Vertical Airflow Cabinet Oven from Grieve
No. 814 is a 500ºF (260ºC), electrically-heated cabinet oven from Grieve, currently used for various plastic and metal part heat treating operations at the customer’s facility. Workspace dimensions of this oven measure 22” W x 21” D x 85” H. 18 kW are installed in Nichrome wire tubular elements to heat the oven chamber, while […]
April 15, 2015
Mark Saline Joins Sinterite / C.I. Hayes as General Manager
Gasbarre Products, Inc. is pleased to announce the hiring of Mark Saline as General Manager of Sinterite and C.I. Hayes. Mark is an accomplished manager with nearly 30 years of technical and business experience in the powder metallurgy industry. He has worked with all aspects of the manufacturing process, starting on the production floor and […]
April 15, 2015
U. S. Steel Announces Construction of EAF And Tubular Products Coupling Facility in Alabama
United States Steel Corporation announced two capital investment projects valued at a total of $277.5 million. The first capital project is the construction of a technologically advanced electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking facility at its Fairfield Works in Birmingham, Ala., located in Jefferson County. The company will also construct a tubular products coupling facility at […]
April 15, 2015
ASM International Convenes Discussion to Advance the Goals of the Materials Genome Initiative
A workshop report released by ASM International, Materials Park, Ohio through its Computational Materials Data Network outlined actions that professional societies can take to convene the materials community to drive the development of a materials data infrastructure aimed at transforming the way the materials community collaborates on materials and manufacturing innovation. By focusing on the […]
April 15, 2015
Cypress and Spansion complete $5 billion merger
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, Calif., and Spansion Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., have closed the merger of the two companies in an all-stock, tax-free transaction valued at approximately $5 billion. The newly combined company delivers microcontrollers and specialized memories for embedded systems. Cypress has a broad, differentiated product portfolio, which includes NOR flash memories, F-RAM and […]
April 15, 2015
