Welcome to Heat Treat Today's This Week in Heat Treat Social Media. You know and we know that there is too much content available on the web, so it’s next to impossible to sift through all of the articles and posts that flood our inboxes and notifications on a daily basis. Today, Heat Treat Today brings you another hot take of the latest compelling, inspiring, and entertaining heat treat chatter from the world of social media.
We're looking at microscopic images, some in-depth heat treat content, a recap of networking opportunities, plus much more!
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1. Art or Science?
Through heat treatment, austempered ductile iron (ADI) becomes incredibly strong. For ADI, the material has been austempered such that the matrix is transformed into ausferrite, or a mixture of acicular ferrite and austenite. The image below has been elevated to art-gallery quality with the use of selective color etching.
Images of weld metal, microstructure of coarse-grain zone, microstructure of fine-grain zone, and base material. See how the crystal orientation changes in different zones.
2. All That Chatter
Check out some of the chatter that everyone has been posting on heat treat topics over the last few months.
May the 4th
Congratulation on the New Role!
3. Bumping Shoulders with Heat Treaters
It's great to connect with other folks in the industry. This past week has been an amazing opportunity to forge new relationships and strengthen old ones at trade shows and expos.
Rapid + TCT
Ceramics Expo
ACT Expo
SAMPE 2023
4. The Reading (and Podcast) Corner
Time to take your afternoon coffee and read a few technical articles from around the industry. Got too many things to do? Put on an episode of Heat Treat Radio to enjoy on your commute. Maybe you'll find some "continuing education" time this weekend!
Is there room for creativity in the heat treat shop?
Review of quench basics. Click to watch the video below!
5. Sleep Deprived
The excitement of nitriding keeping you awake at night?!
Try some of these seven techniques our astronauts use to get better sleep in space!
These methods help @NASA_Astronauts sleep well through the disruptions of their natural sleep cycle — and they may help you too: https://t.co/pams55TN5z pic.twitter.com/8vUF4Ozhun
— NASA (@NASA) April 16, 2023
Have a great weekend!
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