Metals Fabrication: Understanding the Basics
Chapter 6: Heat Treatment
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Published:2013
Abstract
This chapter discusses the processes used in manufacturing to thermally alter the properties of metals and alloys. It begins with a review of the iron-carbon system, the factors that affect hardenability, and the use of continuous cooling transformation diagrams. It then explains how various steels respond to heat treatments, such as annealing, normalizing, spheroidizing, tempering, and direct and interrupted quenching, and surface-hardening processes, such as flame and induction hardening, carburizing, nitriding, and carbonitriding. It also addresses the issue of temper embrittlement and discusses the effect of precipitation hardening on aluminum and other alloys.
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Member Sign InHeat Treatment, Metals Fabrication: Understanding the Basics, Edited By F.C. Campbell, ASM International, 2013, p 271–324, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.tb.mfub.t53740271
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