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Heat treating processes

• Aging
• Annealing
• Austenitizing
• Cryogenic treatments 
• Hardening
• Homogenizing
• Normalizing
• Stress relieving
• Tempering

Surface hardening processes

• Boriding
• Carbonitriding
• Carburizing
• Case hardening
• Electron beam hardening
• Induction surface hardening
• Laser hardening
• Nitriding
• Nitrocarburizing

Quenching and cooling

• Direct-forge quenching
• Fluidized-bed quenching
• Gas quenching
• Immersion quenching
• Intensive quenching
• Spray quenching

Quenchants and quenching equipment

• Gas quenchants
• Oil quenchants
• Polymer quenchants
• Water quenchants
• Isothermal quenching furnaces
• Quench agitators
  

Material-specific processes

• Aluminum alloys
• Carbon steels
• Cast irons
• Low-alloy steels
• Nickel-base alloys
• Powder metal alloys
• Stainless steels
• Titanium alloys
• Tool and die steels

Heat treating equipment

• Atmosphere furnaces
• Brazing furnaces
• Combustion furnaces
• Cryogenic treatment equipment
• Induction furnaces
• Retort furnaces
• Salt bath furnaces
• Sintering furnaces
• Vacuum furnaces

Testing and analysis

• Computational analysis
• Hardenability testing
• Heat transfer analysis
• Microstructural analysis
• Nondestructive testing
• Residual stress analysis

Quality issues and concerns

• Dimensional distortion
• Embrittlement
• Gas purity
• Oxidative degradation
• Quench cracking
• Retained austenite

Characterization and analysis

• Flattening mechanisms
• Process modeling and simulation
• Microstructural analysis
• Residual stress analysis
• Powder characterization
• Splat formation