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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Advanced Robotics Combined with Eddy Current Testing Offers Verification Methods for Heat-Treated Gears
Eddy current is a nondestructive testing technique proven for use in heat treatment and material structure verification. Modern multifrequency eddy […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Case Study: Phoenix Contact and Ipsen
Ipsen supports its equipment across the globe using the mGuard VPN router from Phoenix Contact, which allows secure remote access […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tighter Control Through Understanding What Your TUS Reports Are Telling You
Temperature uniformity is the temperature variation (usually expressed as ± degrees) within the qualified furnace work zone (Figure 1) with […]
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 […]
Austempering: An Old Process with New Potential for Gears
The Austemper heat treat process was first developed in the 1930’s. Its application was initially limited to low volume, relatively […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
