Case Study: Cost effective, low distortion carburizing of internal helical ring gear for transmissions
There are many critical factors that are assessed when designing a gear that will be used in demanding applications such as engines or transmissions....
Contour Hardening Bevel, Hypoid, and Pinion Gears
Traditional gear heat treatment involves gas carburizing in batch or continuous furnaces for an extended time, and then oil quenching. The gears are typically...
Additive manufacturing and its road to industrial maturity
The American Gear Manufacturers Association’s (AGMA) Emerging Technologies Committee (ETC) recently organized a show floor tour of the Rapid + TCT Exhibition (Rapid). The...
Ceramic fiber: High temperature insulation solution
Ceramic fiber is essential in various industries involving high-temperature operations. It offers superior thermal resistance for protecting structures, equipment, and machinery from steel and...
Selecting the correct industrial ovens for finishing applications
Finishing is defined as “completing the manufacture or decoration of a material or product by giving it an attractive surface appearance.” In industrial applications,...
Efficient Gas Heating of Industrial Furnaces
There are various types of high-efficiency gas burners and radiant tubes currently on the market, and economic tools can be used to assess investments...
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...
Increased Productivity Combining C/C Fixturing and LPC
Carbon/carbon and graphite materials are used in a variety of applications throughout the high temperature furnace industry. Entire vacuum hot zones are manufactured from...
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...
Heat Treatments and Critical Quenching Rates in Additively Manufactured Al–Si–Mg Alloys
Laser powder-bed fusion (LPBF) has significantly gained in importance and has become one of the major fabrication techniques within metal additive manufacturing. The fast...
Effect of heat treatment on some titanium alloys used as biomaterials
Titanium-based alloys are constantly improved to obtain properties suitable for their use. Improving titanium alloys is very important for performing alloys without side effects....
Balancing a plant security profile
In today’s technology-driven world, where cyber threats dominate headlines and organizations invest significant resources in safeguarding their OT and IT infrastructure from digital threat...
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,...
Going viral: Outside-the-box research into sterilizing N95 masks for re-use
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across the country and the world, the need for personal protective equipment for medical professionals has pushed the...
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?...
The tribology of dental ceramics
Ceramics are widely used in dentistry due to their ability to mimic the optical characteristics of enamel and dentine, as well as their biocompatibility...
Customized, modern process control system saves time, money
When a manufacturer of fasteners and fastening system components needed a more reliable process control system, it turned to Conrad Kacsik for an upgrade that would work with its older hardware.
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...
New Simulation Software Tool Successfully Used in Carburizing Gears
In 1999 when the Center for Heat Treat Excellence (CHTE) was formed, the idea was to develop collaborative research between the industrial sector and...
Low pressure carburization modeling with carbide formation and dissociation
Low pressure carburization (LPC) processes are becoming more widespread throughout industry due to the reduced cycle times and the control over the carbon profile...
Energy and material efficiency of steel powder metallurgy
Concern about global warming motivates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, but the environmental impact of the whole powder metallurgy production chain...
Sophisticated control systems for optimal process operations
A comprehensive control system, whether designing a new controls package or updating your existing system to a new controls scheme, is the most effective...
Industrial ion nitriding of TMS 80 micro alloyed steel parts at various plasma power...
Control of the ion nitriding process is typically based on temperature of the work piece, composition of the gas mixture, gas pressure, nitriding time,...
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...
Optimizing Gas Supply for Industrial Lasers
Laser cutting of metals and other materials has grown rapidly due to developments in laser power, advancements in CNC automation, and decreasing costs. The...
Stronger ‘shaped’ wire belt stands up to rigors of heat treating
Whether for automotive, aerospace, or heavy equipment, manufacturers using heat treatment — which can reach temperatures up to 2,400°F and vary from a few...
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...
Recent progress in three areas of induction-heating technology
This paper introduces recent research progress of induction heating technology at Baosteel, specifically the development of full coil static induction heating technology of the...
Case Study: SECO/Warwick and ABB Instrument Transformers
Instrument transformers are a precision device designed to accurately meter either current or voltage on an electrical circuit. They also provide a means to...
How to Avoid Heat Treatment Problems When Launching New Gear Programs
So you’ve just secured an exciting new gear-manufacturing project and it’s time to start production planning. Heat treatment, such as carburizing, hardening and tempering,...
Reliable Vacuum Supply for Plasma Nitriding
Plasma nitriding is becoming more and more important for heat treatment.
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...
Freezing Out the Competition
Most companies are looking for a secret that can help them keep a step ahead of the competition — a little edge to run...
What pyrometer users need to know
Radiation thermometry, also known as infrared pyrometry, optical pyrometry, or simply pyrometry, is a non-contact temperature measurement technique that requires measurement of some portion...
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...
Integrating 3D printing into prototyping and production scenarios
At the recent TCT 3Sixty event in Birmingham, England, 3DPRINTUK ran a competition offering vouchers to be used against the cost of future 3D...
Case Hardening Basics: Nitrocarburizing vs. Carbonitriding
Confusion surrounding the case-hardening techniques of nitrocarburizing and carbonitriding prove the point that it's easy to get lost in the nomenclature behind heat-treating processes.
That...
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...
CASE STUDY: Company: Praxair Distribution, Inc. Customer: ALD Thermal Treatment, Inc.
In the past several years, heat treating companies have experienced a significant supply disruption in generated acetylene. Additionally, generated acetylene may not offer the...
Finite element modeling and simulation of vacuum brazing processes
Vacuum brazing is a black box process, so component distortion that occurs during heat treatment is difficult to prove experimentally. Thus, a novel FE-model...
