The Stages of Heat Treatment
Different manufacturing industries maximise all the features that can be found on metals. For one, almost all metals can be easily fabricated into any shape, size, or design. Some of...
Causes and Effects of Distortion in Heat Treatment
Heat treatment is a type of metalworking process that is utilised to change and alter the physical and even the chemical properties of a specific metal material. This process typically...
Vacuum Heat Treating and Its Material Advantages
Heat is typically required to change the formation and appearance of metals. However, as these heated metals react with air, the said interaction would manifest numerous unwanted changes to the...
Nitrocarburizing vs. Carbonitriding: What are the Differences?
Most heat treatment companies would apply case hardening procedures to a workpiece so that its surface will become harder. Case hardening refers primarily to the process of hardening or coating...
What are Some of the Causes of Quench Cracking in Steel?
It is significant for heat treatments to comprehend the systems related with quench cracking and to make every single judicious step important to maintain a strategic distance from in-administration item...
Understanding Cold Working and Annealing
All in all terms, cold working is the disfigurement that happens under conditions where recuperation forms are not successful. Then again, hot working is twisting under states of temperature and...
Heat Treatment Process Used for Castings
It is highly essential to use heat treatment process to change the physical and chemical properties of cast alloy depending on how it will be used. As it undergoes a...
Troubleshooting Nitriding Process Problems – Part 2
The nitriding process improves the life expectancy of machine parts, so reducing the consumption of steel and energy and, as a result, the cost of the entire manufacturing process. For...
Troubleshooting Nitriding Process Problems – Part 1
The nitriding process is perhaps one of the most misunderstood thermo-chemical surface treatment processes that are practiced today. So the process is not as old as, for example carburising. However,...
Process and Applications of Black Oxide
The process of forming black iron oxide to ferrous metals and other types of materials is often called black oxide. The black oxide process is a chemical conversion coating for...
What is Carburization in Heat Treatment?
Case hardening is a process of reinforcing the surface of some types of soft metal, making them more durable and tough. This process forms a thin layer of durable metal...
How a Heat Treatment Modifies Metal Properties
A heat treatment does far more than just change the physical appearance of metals. It also can modify the properties of them to reach the intended goal. This type of...
How Does Heat Treatment Affect the Properties of Metals?
Various properties of metals experience change when they go through a heat treatment. Some changes make the metals more resilient or resistant while others allow them to be reshaped. Even...
The Hot-Temperature vs. Mid-Temperature Black Oxide Process: What Are the Differences?
Black oxide is a conversion coating that is suitable for ferrous metals along with copper-based alloys, copper, zinc, stainless steel, silver solder and powdered metals. It accomplishes this through a...
Common Issues with Induction Hardening
The process of induction hardening is for the purpose of hardening the surface of components made from steel or other carbon-alloy metals. Components or parts include a wide assortment of...
Reasons Why Ferrous Metals Need Normalizing Heat Treatment
Ferrous metals, those that are rich in iron (Fe), often require normalizing. Why should this be the case? Is the grain size really that inconsistent and material-coarse after an iron...
Controlling Furnace Atmosphere in Heat Treatment
A second heat treatment effector exists in an industrial furnace, one that’s sometimes forgotten by the average layperson. Besides the heat source, the gas-fuelled or electrically energized thermal energy flowing...
A Review on the Working Principles of a Vacuum Furnace
As a rule, the inner workings of a vacuum furnace are ordinarily composed of a series of sealed firebox chambers. At the centre of this airtight assemblage, a leakproof furnace...
How Heat Treatment Contributes to Material Conductivity
Metals harden when they’re heated, or they become more ductile when they’re heated then cooled at a specific rate. Interestingly enough, metal workpieces change in other ways when cooking in...
Marquenching/Martempering: How Does it Work in Achieving Red Hardness of Steel?
Red Hardness, the terminology paints quite a picture. After a steel workpiece slides into a furnace, it soaks up so much thermal that it becomes “red hot.” Alloy microstructures alter...
How Does Heat Treatment Change Metal Properties?
Once upon a time, blacksmiths heat-treated swords and armour. The job came to an end as the object sizzled in a barrel of water. That action toughened the metal. Just...
What are the Benefits of Precision Straightening?
Engine connecting rods will be used to illustrate today’s issue. Utilized as key motion imparting components, these rigid steel connectors move in long, linearly oriented strokes. From piston to crankshaft,...
How Heat Treatment Can Affect Welded Joints
Much though engineers wish the opposite were true, heat treatment work can weaken welded joints. Since welding equipment uses thermal energy to fuse parts together and add filer metals, the...
Common Induction Hardening Problems and Resolutions
Just as a reminder, induction hardening technology is used to enhance the toughness and fatigue resistance of carbon steel parts. Components to be heat treated are placed inside a furnace,...