Maintenance Procedures for Vacuum Furnaces
More gear manufacturers need to add vacuum furnace machines to the shop floor and include this procedure in the overall manufacturing process. As vacuum...
Heat Treating Education
In a recent paper by Janusz Kowalewski of Ipsen at the 3rd International Conference on Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering in Automotive Applications held...
Inductive Fixture Hardening and Tempering Process for Dimensionally Accurate Parts
Automobile manufacturers increasingly require components with greater accuracy for use in sophisticated applications. To meet these increased requirements, press hardening was developed, and there...
Company Profile: Park Thermal International
Heat treating salts, on-site service, engineering support, alternative financing solutions—Park Thermal International is the definition of a “one-stop-shop” for heat treating needs. But company...
Extending Performance
Metal gears and precision components of all types are in growing demand for robotics, particularly in industrial sectors such as automotive, aerospace, and machinery....
Flame Hardening Gears
Long gone are the days when a machine operator sat in a dark corner of the shop staring at the cherry red glow of...
Advantages of Induction Hardening with No Soft Zone on Large Bearings
Large bearings are required to carry large axial and radial forces and their resulting torques. Typical applications include general machinery and construction equipment, as...
Temperature and accuracy
Three basic steps that can help in selecting the right thermocouple wire.
Noise in instrumentation circuits
How to control and understand “noise,” as well as installation considerations.
Rapid Stress Relief and Tempering
Stress relief and tempering are important processes, but they are still conducted much as they have been for the past 50 years. However, advanced...
Energy and material efficiency of steel powder metallurgy
Concern about global warming motivates the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from manufacturing, but the environmental impact of the whole powder metallurgy production chain...
Investigations on Tooth Root Bending Strength of Case Hardened Gears in the Range of...
Gears are one of the critical components that determine the capability and reliability of drive systems. Thus the tooth root load-carrying capacity is one...
Nonlinear electromagnetic acoustic testing method for tensile damage evaluation
This paper describes an approach for measuring material plasticity using contactless electromagnetic acoustic method. Harmonic generation from noncumulative fundamental longitudinal wave in specimen is...
Heat treatment of PM parts by hot isostatic pressing
Several advantages can be seen by using pre-stressed wire-wound hot isostatic presses for consolidating of metal powder.
Buying a New Lab or Industrial Furnace
When the time comes to purchase a new lab or industrial furnace, there are several points that need to be considered before going out...
Intelligent Gas Carburizing with Super IQ ™
Atmosphere furnace or vacuum furnace, which to use? In carburizing, for instance, the workhorse furnace is the atmosphere gas carburizing furnace with integral oil...
Using vanadium alloys
Vanadium is a commonly used alloying element in high strength low alloy (HSLA) steels because it improves strength and wear resistance through the precipitation...
Mathematical Modelling of the Vacuum Carburizing Process
CAs expectations regarding the quality and precision of products continue to grow, further advances in materials engineering are strictly associated with the use of...
Troubleshooting and Prevention of Cracking in Induction Hardening of Steels: Lessons Learned – Part 1
Newly employed heat-treat engineers, designers and practitioners may need an appreciable amount of time to gain the required knowledge and experience in understanding the...
Residual Stress Distribution in an Induction Hardened Gear
A vast majority of steel gears are heat treated in order to obtain the desirable properties of a final product such as a high...
