Flame Hardening Gears
Long gone are the days when a machine operator sat in a dark corner of the shop staring at the […]
Increased Productivity Combining C/C Fixturing and LPC
Carbon/carbon and graphite materials are used in a variety of applications throughout the high temperature furnace industry. Entire vacuum hot […]
Heat Treat 101: A Primer
Gears play an essential role in the performance of many products that we rely on in our everyday lives. When […]
Heat Treatment of Large Components
Large gear components can be offered in many applications such as marine, wind power, steel rolling mills, power plants, transportation, […]
Vacuum Carburizing Large Gears
Throughout the machining process, great care is taken to achieve and maintain critical dimensions. The gears are then handed over […]
Tooth-by-Tooth Induction Hardening of Gears (and How To Avoid Some Common Problems)
Tooth-by-tooth induction hardening of gears is a complex process. Variations of any of kind may be sufficient to cause the […]
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 […]
Properties of Cases Treated with High-Temperature Vacuum Carburization
Carburizing continues to be one of the basic thermochemical treatments used for industrial steel. With the development of the industry, […]
Improving Production Safely with Integrated Heat Treat and Quenching Cell
These aspects are not just requested, but increasingly required by industrial clients looking to install new thermal systems or expand […]
Inductive Spin Hardening of Gears: A Survey of Key Features and Benefits
A large part of the misunderstanding of induction hardening seems to stem from an incomplete grasp of the basic induction […]
CASE STUDY: Company: Praxair Distribution, Inc. Customer: ALD Thermal Treatment, Inc.
In the past several years, heat treating companies have experienced a significant supply disruption in generated acetylene. Additionally, generated acetylene […]
Cures for Heat Treaters Headaches
Heat treaters all over the world encounter similar problems with atmosphere furnaces. These problems not only cause operational headaches in […]
Simulation of Gas Quenching of Steel Parts
One major difference between immersion quenching and gas quenching is the presence of boiling during the early stages of quenching […]
Recent Inventions and Innovations in Induction Hardening of Gears and Gear-like Components
This paper focuses on recent inventions and innovations (from the past four-six years) in induction hardening of gears and gear-like […]
How Gears Fail
Heat treatment plays an important—some would say critical—role in gear manufacturing. Therefore, there is a need to better understand, from […]
Heat Treat Process For Gears
Heat treatment is a critical and complex element in the manufacturing of gears that greatly impacts how each will perform […]
Typical Heat Treatment Defects of Gears and Solutions Using FEA Modeling
Steel gears are heat treated to obtain enhanced properties and improved service performance. Quench hardening is one of the most […]
Tighter Control Through Understanding What Your TUS Reports Are Telling You
Temperature uniformity is the temperature variation (usually expressed as ± degrees) within the qualified furnace work zone (Figure 1) with […]
Gas vs. Liquid Quenching: A Direct Comparison in Hardenability to Reduce Distortion
Introduction Hardenability is the ability of steel to partially or completely transform from austenite to some fraction of martensite at […]
Deep Cryogenic Treatment
What is deep cryogenic treatment? Deep cryogenic treatment (DCT) of steels and other materials is a distinct process that uses […]
