Tackling Failure Due to Stress Corrosion Cracking by Breaking “a Few Cardinal Rules”

 

Source: Paulo

 

The heat treating of constant tension bands used by automakers is a complex process, and the challenge posed to a leading heat treating company by a supplier of these bands was to determine how to reduce the risk of failure due to stress corrosion cracking.

“Improving the physical characteristics of metal components often requires fine-tuned treatments that bring them to the brink of destruction. It’s a quirk of metallurgy heat treaters contend with constantly.”

Solving the problem involved, as noted in this case study from Paulo, breaking “a few cardinal rules en route.”

 

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