We’re flipping through Heat Treat Today’s technical articles today to highlight four processes: annealing, brazing, carburizing, and forging. Read our top picks of technical articles from these categories like a case study on parts failure (annealing solution) and a new competitor to tried-and-true brazing.
ANNEALING: Part Failure Investigation & Resolution — a Case Study
When an automotive manufacturing began loosing time, money, and the steel itself due to frequent cracking, a third party stepped in to solve the part failure.
[blockquote author=”” style=”1″]In this case, the life cycle of these parts began in a steel mill, where coils of AISI 1045 carbon steel were produced. The parts were then annealed in preparation for fine blanking at our customer’s facility. Then, the parts would be through hardened and sent to the automotive manufacturer.[/blockquote]
BRAZING: The “Next Leap”: Diffusion Bonding for Critical Component Manufacturing
Electric vehicle production, semiconductor development, and a whole wealth of novel products are pushing at the fringes. Does this demand change to tried-and-true heat treat applications? You tell us!
[blockquote author=”” style=”1″]The most sophisticated global companies in electronic instrumentation and semiconductors view diffusion bonding as the wave of the future. The functional-value that 21st-century diffusion bonding technology now offers is a unique-and-beneficial solution in a class by itself; designers came to this realization after being confronted with component performance issues that could not be resolved by traditional brazing. Materials currently under consideration include pure aluminum, aluminum alloys, stainless steels, and nickel-based alloys as well as any other material, such as coated substrates for power electronics or glass and special material combinations (dissimilar joints).[/blockquote]
CARBURIZING: Elevate Your Knowledge: 5 Need-to-Know Case Hardening Processes
This technical article can be found under “Carburizing” in the navigation bar, but as the name implies, you’ll be diving into five essential case-hardening processes. BONUS! this one includes an excellent table to break down the differences.
[blockquote author=”” style=”1″]Case hardening processes are some of the most common heat treatments performed, but each process has its own unique needs. The table below [in the article] provides a summary of the considerations that need to be made when selecting the optimum process. This list is by no means exhaustive; it is encouraged to work with a furnace manufacturer familiar with each process to help select the correct process and equipment needed.[/blockquote]
FORGING: Forging, Quenching, and Integrated Heat Treat: DFIQ Final Report
Here’s a brain spinner: Direct from Forge Intensive Quenching. If you just asked “What?” Best read the full report (or at least the abstract) that tests this novel method — a method that could eliminate normalizing, quenching, and tempering.
[blockquote author=”” style=”1″]Data obtained on the mechanical properties of DFIQ forgings were compared to that of forgings after applying a conventional post-forging heat-treating process. Values of heat transfer coefficients in the DFIQ tank were determined experimentally using a special probe. This data was needed for calculating an optimal dwell time when quenching forgings in the DFIQ tank. It was shown that the application of the DFIQ process allows elimination of. . .[/blockquote]
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