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Practical Heat Treating (Second Edition)
ASM International
ISBN electronic:
978-1-62708-262-4
Publication date:
2006
Book Chapter
Chapter 1: What Is Heat Treating? Importance and Classifications
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Published:2006
Abstract
This chapter introduces the principal heat treating processes, namely normalizing, annealing, stress relieving, surface hardening, quenching, and tempering. An overview of four of the more popular surface hardening treatments, namely carburizing, carbonitriding, nitriding, and nitrocarburizing, is provided.
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What Is Heat Treating? Importance and Classifications, Practical Heat Treating, 2nd ed., By Jon L. Dossett, Howard E. Boyer, ASM International, 2006, p 1–7, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.pht2.t51440001
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