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Things can really heat up when an industrial furnace gets going — often surpassing temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees. […]
Q&A with Raymond Daniel Noble
What are your duties with Noble Industrial Furnace? What is your typical day? My duties include, but are not limited […]
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 […]
Carburizing and Nitriding Treatment Modeling
(Photo courtesy of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.) Carburizing and nitriding treatments have the same goal: increase hardness on the surface […]
Hybrid Forging: Advances in Open Die and Closed Die Forging
Today’s high-strength material users are increasingly obliged by everyday economic and competitive realities to seek alternatives to their current manufacturing […]
Detrimental Effects of Sulfur on Transverse Impact Properties in Steel Forgings
Anyone who has supplied or processed forgings for the power generation, oil and gas, or shipbuilding industries, among others, is […]
Improved Materials and Enhanced Fatigue Resistance for Gear Components
For decades, the gear industry has addressed the challenge to produce high-performance components in a cost-effective manner. To meet design […]
Coupling CFD and Oil Quench Hardening Analysis of a Gear Component
Today, powertrain development is driven in the direction of weight reduction by replacing heavier components with low-cost or higher strength […]
Residual Stress Distribution in an Induction Hardened Gear
A vast majority of steel gears are heat treated in order to obtain the desirable properties of a final product […]
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 [1-5]. The cost of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Reducing Gear Size for Compact Transmission Design by Selecting Steel Grade and Heat Treatment Process with Computer Modeling
Gears are the most important components for transmissions. In many situations, the size of a transmission design needs to be […]
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 […]
Vacuum Carburizing Large Gears
Throughout the machining process, great care is taken to achieve and maintain critical dimensions. The gears are then handed over […]
Improving Production Safely with Integrated Heat Treat and Quenching Cell
These aspects are not just requested, but increasingly required by industrial clients looking to install new thermal systems or expand […]
Cures for Heat Treaters Headaches
Heat treaters all over the world encounter similar problems with atmosphere furnaces. These problems not only cause operational headaches in […]
Simulation of Gas Quenching of Steel Parts
One major difference between immersion quenching and gas quenching is the presence of boiling during the early stages of quenching […]
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 […]
Deep Cryogenic Treatment
What is deep cryogenic treatment? Deep cryogenic treatment (DCT) of steels and other materials is a distinct process that uses […]
Heat Treat Process For Gears
Heat treatment is a critical and complex element in the manufacturing of gears that greatly impacts how each will perform […]
Typical Heat Treatment Defects of Gears and Solutions Using FEA Modeling
Steel gears are heat treated to obtain enhanced properties and improved service performance. Quench hardening is one of the most […]
How Gears Fail
Heat treatment plays an important — some would say critical — role in gear manufacturing. Therefore, there is a need […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
