Normally end condition of the process is described instead of process used within heat treatment. This helps in focusing as which end product is needed or required so that efforts […]
Normally end condition of the process is described instead of process used within heat treatment. This helps in focusing as which end product is needed or required so that efforts […]
Steel heating is sometimes utilized for altering carbon content. Upon heating of steel within oxidizing environment, oxygen makes a combination with iron for forming iron-oxide layer. This layer protects steel […]
Quenching steel results in transformation of austenite into martensite, it is not completely transformed. There are some of the crystals of austenite that remain unchanged and are not affected by […]
It is a process of thermo-chemical diffusion within which alloying element, mostly nitrogen or carbon diffuse in to surface of monolithic metal. It results in an interstitial solid-solution that is […]
This technique is applied for hardening only some of the metal`s portion. It is different from differential hardening, in which heating is applied to entire metal and then cooled-down at […]
There are few techniques that allow various areas of object to get various heat-treatments. This is known as differential hardening and is common for high quality swords and knives. Its […]
There are heat-treating methods that have been developed for altering properties of an object`s portion, not the whole object. These comprise of cooling various alloy areas at different cooling rates, […]
The tempering colors are used for judgment regarding tempered steels` final properties. Steel that is very hard is normally tempered within the light-to-dark straw range. Spring steels are often tempered […]
Martensitic steel in its un-tempered hard form is much brittle for use. One of the methods to alleviate this difficulty is tempering. Tempering of quenched parts is required for majority […]
There are metals that fall under the classification of precipitation hardening. When quenching is performed upon some precipitation hardening-alloy, alloying elements of this alloy are trapped within solution, which results […]