Heat treatment

Heat treatment

The heating and cooling of metals or alloys in the solid state for the purpose of obtaining certain desirable conditions or properties.

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Heat treatment

A hardness number determined by applying a predetermined load to the surface of a test material by using a hardened steel ball. Diameter of the depression is measured, and hardness is calculated as ...

scleroscope

Metals; Heat treatment

A hardness test performed on a Shore Scleroscope Hardness Testing machine. This type of testing is used primarily for large parts that cannot be tested under Rockwell or Brinell.

shore hardness

Metals; Heat treatment

A hardness test performed on a Shore Scleroscope Hardness Testing machine. This type of testing is used primarily for large parts that cannot be tested under Rockwell or Brinell.

flame hardening

Metals; Heat treatment

A heat treating method used to harden the surface of some parts where only a small portion of the surface is to be hardened, because the part might distort with conventional carburizing or heat ...

austempering

Metals; Heat treatment

A heat treating process for ferrous alloys achieved by quenching at a rate fast enough to avoid formation of ferrite or pearlite, and is done from the austenitizing temperature into a heat extracting ...

bainite

Metals; Heat treatment

A product of austenite, this term is used by metallurgists to describe a particular structure of steel when the steel is polished, etched and examined with a microscope.