Heat Treat Radio is a podcast where Doug Glenn, publisher of Heat Treat Today discusses cutting-edge topics with industry-leading personalities. Among many cutting-edge interviews and conversations on the latest technologies and commercial happenings in the industry are topics like AMS2750F, ferritic nitrocarburizing, and supply chain options.
You can subscribe to Heat Treat Radio on iTunes or SoundCloud, and even listen to these episodes on PodBean, iHeart Radio, and ListenNotes. Check out some of the top heat treat topics from the list of episodes below.
1 - The World of Ferritic Nitrocarburizing with Thomas Wingens
"A big part of the success of FNC is the combination with post oxidation. That is a big part because the combination of ferritic nitrocarburizing with post oxidation leads not only to a mechanical strong surface with compressive stresses, it also has a very high corrosion resistance."
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2 - Andrew Bassett on AMS2750F (Part 1 of 3)
"One of the things I always had in my mind when I first got involved with the specification was that the specifications were written by the aerospace 'primes,' but that’s not the case; it involves people, such as myself, who are end-users of this specification. I’m an end-user, so I’m able give my input and say, 'Hey, this doesn’t make sense. What you want to add into the spec is not real world.' It’s nice that people such as us get involved with these specifications."
Andrew Bassett, Aerospace Testing and Pyrometry
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3 - Rethinking Heat Treating for the 21st Century with Joe Powell (Part 1 of 4)
"I am a commercial heat treater who believes that part design should be integrated for heat treating by the part-maker. It’s a nuance, but what it really boils down to is that sometimes commercial heat treaters do it best, but sometimes the part-maker can do it better."
Joe Powell, Integrated Heat Treating Solutions
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4 - Metal Hardening 101 with Mark Hemsath, Part 3 of 3
"[Nitriding], and really its cousin FNC (ferritic nitrocarburizing), are actually fairly inexpensive treatments and they can be performed on final dimension parts. There is no post machining and there is minimal distortion. That’s kind of my opinion of why it has done well.”
Mark Hemsath, Nitrex Heat Treating Services
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5 - Peter Hushek on Reducing TUS Failures
"Who wouldn't want to have a smoother operation? Not have to schedule people, pay overtime, justify it. We're three years into the project and I think we have a very viable tool for heat treaters to see what they currently cannot see."
Peter Hushek, Virtual Visual Surveys
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6 - James Jan & Andrew Martin on Development of Modeling Software
"We model what happens with FIRE CFD code, we model what is happening at the transition of the interface between the metal component and the water. Because when something that hot gets plunged into water, it is quite an interesting thing that happens—it is called the Leidenfrost Effect. Initially, what happens is the component is so hot, it forms a film around the outside of it, a vapor film, and perversely that vapor film then insulates the component from the water. That film slowly breaks down then you get into nucleate boiling and things like that, and that becomes a lot more aggressive and the cooling happens much faster until you eventually get a single phase. But actually modeling the boiling process is what the CFD code does. That is the secret sauce that we’re bringing to the party here."
James Jan, Ford, and Andrew Martin, AVL
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7 - A Discussion with Carl Nicolia, PSNergy President
"Their recovery cycle was reduced by 25%. Now, a recovery cycle is from the time I close the door to the time I start my controlled cycle. 25% reduction. And in that total cycle, they dropped gas consumption 5% which eventually led to an increase in output of that furnace by 10%. What we love about this, and this is kind of the theme of the article really, is that the total cost to implement this was less than $10,000. This is a perfect example of high value solution. I hate to say ‘low cost’ because cost is relative, but this is high value. If I can deliver 25% improvement with less than $10,000, or if I can deliver 10% double-digit output increases for less than $10,000, that’s a high value solution."
Carl Nicolia, PSNergy
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8 - A Discussion with Harb Nayar, Sintering Guru
"The other one I think that’s going to emerge is most probably making more and more parts by powder metallurgy from metal powder which are 100% free alloyed. In other words, all the elements are in each metal powdered particle. In other words, you’re starting with a micro ingot as opposed to a big ingot that you normally use to make bars, and then from bars you cut pieces, and then from those pieces you do hard forging or machining."
Harb Nayar, TAT Technologies LLC
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9 - Justin Rydzewski on CQI-9 Rev.4 (Part 1 of 4) – Pyrometry
"Perhaps the most significant change within the temperature uniformity survey section is to the alternative temperature uniformity survey testing methods. In instances when I can’t perform a survey with sensors being trailed in, or I can’t send a data pack sort of unit or a PhoenixTM unit through that furnace system itself to collect the data, for systems like that, in the third edition, there were three or four paragraphs of information about what you could do."
Justin Rydzewski, Controls Service, Inc.
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10 - Heat Treat Modeling With Justin Sims
"The interesting thing is that there is a phenomena precipitation hardening that goes on in aluminum and titanium. But it also goes on in these high alloy steels. It is a secondary hardening mechanism. We’ve been working on that and we feel that once we can handle secondary hardening in steel, then the jump to aluminum and titanium should be pretty straightforward."
Justin Sims, DANTE Solutions
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