Induction Heat Treating: How to Shorten the Time to Production
In an increasingly competitive world, it is good to pause and ask: How can we do our work faster, better, and use fewer resources?...
Carburizing clean with Method 4
The existing model for removing soot from a furnace is a burn-out consisting of three methods:
Method 1: Remove the load, lower the furnace temp,...
The future of kiln lining fibers
Lining iron and steel furnaces is critical to extend the life of the furnaces and to protect the purity of the metals being heat...
Optimizing Case-Depth Uniformity in the Vacuum Carburizing Process
Over the past few decades, the vacuum carburizing process has been proven to produce superior part quality. In addition, the use of vacuum technology...
Using polymer quenchants in an integral quench furnace
There have recently been several inquiries regarding the use of a polymer quenchant in a sealed or integral quench furnace. There are several drivers...
Getting the thermal treat results you want
How aggressive quenching and other drivers lead to high performance
Effect of heat and cryogenic treatment on wear and toughness of HSS AISI M2
Despite the promising results obtained with cryogenic treatment of tool steels, there are still contradictions regarding its benefits, and there is no consensus regarding...
The cutting edge of thermal processing in a forge environment
Scot Forge is a 128-year-old, 100-percent employee-owned forging company that works in multiple markets from large defense, aerospace, power generation and mining projects to...
Heat Treat 101: A Primer
Gears play an essential role in the performance of many products that we rely on in our everyday lives. When we think about gears,...
Improving the mechanical properties of medium carbon steel
Quenching is one of the major processes of heat treatment of medium carbon steel that aims at improving its mechanical properties. However, the effectiveness...
Combining cleanness, strength, and toughness for affordable power densification in steel components
Increased power density in mechanical power transmission components means greater durability — allowing existing designs to achieve greater capacity or reduced size and mass...
Intelligent Gas Carburizing with Super IQ ™
Atmosphere furnace or vacuum furnace, which to use? In carburizing, for instance, the workhorse furnace is the atmosphere gas carburizing furnace with integral oil...
Potential of nitrogen atomized alloy 625 in the powder bed fusion laser beam process
Powder-based metal additive manufacturing processes like powder bed fusion — laser beam use gas-atomized metal powders as feedstock material. Typically, for nickel-based alloys such...
Nitrogen gas quenching pressure effect on BS S155 alloy steel in a vacuum furnace
The production of metal and alloy products requires the use of heat treatment. During the heat-treatment process, quenching is a crucial step. The quenching...
Diffusion bonded printed circuit heat exchangers for severe environments
Traditional plate or shell and tube heat exchangers have long been used in processing industries. Today, however, with many new applications involving high pressures,...
The subtleties of induction processing
Inductoheat was recently asked to conduct three technical video seminars on modern induction thermal technologies for automotive industry:
• The first seminar was April...
Case Study: Laser Hardening
To increase the hardness of a steel material, there are basically three required steps in the hardening process. Step one is to heat the...
Rapid Stress Relief and Tempering
Stress relief and tempering are important processes, but they are still conducted much as they have been for the past 50 years. However, advanced...
New Cooling Tower Technology Augments HVAC and Industrial Processes
Recent developments in factory-assembled cooling-tower technology are increasing the applications for so-called “package” towers supporting HVAC and industrial processes. Although field-erected towers have been...
Reimagining the steel production process
Steel has a major impact on everyone’s lives and our economy. It is crucial to cars, trucks, airplanes, buildings, and more. However, there is...
Reducing measurement error when making thermocouple transmitter connections
The thermocouple (TC) is a thermo-electric device used to measure temperature and nearly two-thirds of U.S. temperature measurement makes use of thermocouples. Most industrial...
Performance and Properties of a new Alternative Gear Steel
In the ongoing strive for light weighting or power densification, high-performance clean steels are showing a significant improvement. As a next step, gear steels...
Analysis of Heat Treat Growth on Carburized Ring Gear and Multivariate Regression Model Development
In gear manufacturing and machine assembly, dimensional stability of each component and conformance to print requirements are of critical importance. During processing, dimensional changes...
Some Basic Mathematical Elements On Steel Heat Treating: Modeling, Freeware Packages And Numerical Simulation
Every year since 2007, in June, a Modeling Week is held within the master program of the faculty of Mathematics of Universidad Complutense of...
Filament-Wound Composites Have Specialized Curing Requirements
Filament winding is a manufacturing method for making tubular and cylindrical shapes of extreme strength and light weight. The technology involves wrapping a mandrel...
Producing Quality Parts in an Atmosphere Furnace: How to Optimize Your Quenching and...
Throughout the manufacturing process, heat treatment is consistently viewed as a critical step for adding value to the parts produced. A part expensively manufactured...
Commercial sintering of chromium powder metallurgy (PM) steels
Chromium was introduced as a potential alloying element for powder metallurgy (PM) steels in the 1990s. Since then, numerous chromium-containing alloy systems have been...
Cryogenic process and application to ferrous alloy
Cryogenics or sub-zero treatment is the third parameter required to achieve maximum hardness in ferrous alloys.
Ion Nitriding of Ferrous and Titanium Alloys for Gear Applications
Thermochemical surface engineering is effective in improving the performance of various gears made of ferrous alloys . The cost of machining typical gears during...
Optimizing forging machine productivity, longevity
As the forging industry’s most experienced maintenance staff and equipment operators retire, keeping legacy machines producing at full capacity is increasingly difficult. When new...
Considerations for selecting vacuum furnace hot zone insulation materials
Over the years, there have been many variations of hot zone insulation designs for vacuum furnace hot zones and can include the following configurations...
Gas vs. Liquid Quenching: A Direct Comparison in Hardenability to Reduce Distortion
Introduction
Hardenability is the ability of steel to partially or completely transform from austenite to some fraction of martensite at a given depth below the...
Troubleshooting and Prevention of Cracking in Induction Hardening of Steels: Lessons Learned – Part 1
Newly employed heat-treat engineers, designers and practitioners may need an appreciable amount of time to gain the required knowledge and experience in understanding the...
Vacuum heat treating and aluminum alloys
This study investigated the interface morphology, microstructure composition, and connection strength of 7A52 aluminum alloy-Al2O3 ceramic brazed joints under heat-treatment conditions. Alumina ceramics were...
Advancements in powder DED
Powder DED, or directed energy deposition, has become a useful and economical tool within the world of metal-based additive manufacturing. Advancements within the process...
Heat work to the fore
Sporting its new tagline — Enabling a Clean, Efficient & Electrified Future — the highly regarded Ceramics Expo will once again head for Cleveland’s...
What ISO 17025 certification means for the heat-treating industry
ISO 17025 standards within the heat-treating industry are important when it comes to methods of calibration.
This is especially important at BASF, a company whose...
10 tips to ensure accurate thermocouple measurement
Careful selection and installation of temperature sensors can ensure accurate sensor performance, which in turn improves product quality and production efficiency.
1: Select the Correct...
Mathematical Modelling of the Vacuum Carburizing Process
CAs expectations regarding the quality and precision of products continue to grow, further advances in materials engineering are strictly associated with the use of...
Reducing Gear Size for Compact Transmission Design by Selecting Steel Grade and Heat Treatment...
Gears are the most important components for transmissions. In many situations, the size of a transmission design needs to be reduced without decreasing power...
