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Things can really heat up when an industrial furnace gets going — often surpassing temperatures of more than 2,000 degrees. […]
Q&A with Raymond Daniel Noble
What are your duties with Noble Industrial Furnace? What is your typical day? My duties include, but are not limited […]
Efficient Gas Heating of Industrial Furnaces
There are various types of high-efficiency gas burners and radiant tubes currently on the market, and economic tools can be […]
Hybrid Forging: Advances in Open Die and Closed Die Forging
Today’s high-strength material users are increasingly obliged by everyday economic and competitive realities to seek alternatives to their current manufacturing […]
Detrimental Effects of Sulfur on Transverse Impact Properties in Steel Forgings
Anyone who has supplied or processed forgings for the power generation, oil and gas, or shipbuilding industries, among others, is […]
Carburizing and Nitriding Treatment Modeling
(Photo courtesy of Advanced Heat Treat Corp.) Carburizing and nitriding treatments have the same goal: increase hardness on the surface […]
Improved Materials and Enhanced Fatigue Resistance for Gear Components
For decades, the gear industry has addressed the challenge to produce high-performance components in a cost-effective manner. To meet design […]
Coupling CFD and Oil Quench Hardening Analysis of a Gear Component
Today, powertrain development is driven in the direction of weight reduction by replacing heavier components with low-cost or higher strength […]
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 […]
Ion Nitriding of Ferrous and Titanium Alloys for Gear Applications
Thermochemical surface engineering is effective in improving the performance of various gears made of ferrous alloys [1-5]. The cost of […]
Enhanced Properties of 17-7 PH Stainless Steel
Background Precipitation-hardening (PH) stainless steel grade 17-7 PH is classified as a semiaustenitic stainless steel used extensively in aerospace and […]
Controlling Distortion in Heat Treatment Through Press Quenching
INTRODUCTION Press quenching is a specialized quenching technique that may be utilized to minimize the distortion of complex geometrical components […]
Producing Quality Parts in an Atmosphere Furnace: How to Optimize Your Quenching and Carburizing Processes
Throughout the manufacturing process, heat treatment is consistently viewed as a critical step for adding value to the parts produced. […]
A Time-Compressed Numerical Approach for Thermal Analysis of Preheating Process in Powder Metallurgy
Introduction Recent developments have been made in the field of powder metallurgy of materials to obtain advanced properties as compared […]
Reducing Gear Size for Compact Transmission Design by Selecting Steel Grade and Heat Treatment Process with Computer Modeling
CAs expectations regarding the quality and precision of products continue to grow, further advances in materials engineering are strictly associated […]
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 […]
Vacuum Carburizing Large Gears
Throughout the machining process, great care is taken to achieve and maintain critical dimensions. The gears are then handed over […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
