Nitriding Technical Content
Common Automotive Heat Treat Processes To Get Into Gear
How long have you been heat treating automotive gears? Which thermal processing techniques do your operations gravitate towards? In this best ...
An Overview of Case Hardening: Which Is Best for Your Operations?
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Case hardening is an essential process for many heat treating operations, but knowing the different types ...
Nitriding and Nitrocarburizing: The Benefits for Surface Treatment
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Nitriding and nitrocarburizing may be familiar terms in the industry, but which process — ion/plasma nitriding, ...
Nitriding and Surface Condition of Parts
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Metallography and nitriding, while two separate things, actually have a relationship. Do you know what it ...
Heat Treat Radio #93: Why Ion Nitride? An Exploration with Gary Sharp
Today's Heat Treat Radio episode illuminates how Gary Sharp, founder and CEO of Advanced Heat Treat Corp, began the company. Heat ...
Heat Treating in Red, White, and Blue
Independence Day is right around the corner, and Heat Treat Today wanted to share some red, white, and blue processes from ...
The Properties of Titans vs. Poor Tribological Performance
Source: Advanced Heat Treat, Corp. There seems to be no limit to what heat treated titanium alloy products can do -- ...
19th Century Guns vs. 21st Century Corrosion Resistance
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Let's talk about guns. To create a durable and corrosion resistant barrel, guns in the 19th ...
Celebrate January 6th: National Technology Day!
What's new in heat treat? A LOT. Over the past year, we've seen numerous new technologies in the way of research, ...
Have You Seen These 18 Heat Treat Technical Resources?
Welcome to another Technical Tuesday for 18 hard-hitting resources to use at your heat treat shop. These include quick tables, data sets, ...
Looking to a Future with FNC or Nitriding?
What's the future of ferritic nitrocarburizing and how does it compare to other hardening processes? When it comes to metal hardening, ...
Elevate Your Knowledge: 5 Need-to-Know Case Hardening Processes
Your parts need heat treated to herculean surface hardness but with a soft, ductile core. That is to say, you are ...
Nitriding vs. FNC
How well do you know hardness processing? Can you draw the line where nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) differ? In this ...
Four Key Questions to Ensure Effective Parts Cleaning in Heat Treat
Why is parts cleaning an important step in heat treat? While a nice surface finish reflects quality, the importance of cleaning ...
Pulse Plasma Nitriding Improves Surface Treatment, Wear Resistance, Fatigue and Material Performance
Pulse plasma nitriding systems deliver uniform case-hardening and increased speed of processing when treating high wear parts. Did you think purple ...
Thermal Processing for Firearms: The Essential Guide
What do gas nitriding, hot isostatic pressing (HIPing), black oxide coating, and high pressure gas quenching have in common? They all ...
Heat Treating with Nitriding for Forging Die Durability
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Edward Rolinski Senior Scientist Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Mike Woods President Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Why ...
Carburizing vs Nitriding Engineering Components
Source: Advanced Heat Treat Corp. Extensive wear or fatigue from friction and contact stress cause many engineering components made ...
Nitrocarburizing for Automotive and Large-Volume Production
Mark Hemsath Conventional wisdom says that batch processing is for smaller volumes. Anytime large volumes of 1 million or more parts ...
Heat Treat Radio #19: Mark Hemsath on Nitriding & FNC
Welcome to another episode of Heat Treat Radio, a periodic podcast where Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, discusses cutting-edge topics ...
Heat Treat Radio #18: Ben Gasbarre on Nitriding
Welcome to another episode of Heat Treat Radio, a periodic podcast where Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, discusses cutting-edge topics ...
The Pros and Cons of Gas and Ion (Plasma) Nitriding
Source: AHTcorp.com The compound zone acts as a ceramic skin protecting the metal underneath from corrosion. (Photo credit: Advanced ...
Heat Treat Basics: Nitriding and Carburizing
Source: Metlab Nitriding and carburizing are the two most common heat treatment practices for surface hardening functional components. The main ...
Carburizing vs Nitriding: Treatment Modeling
Source: Thermal Processing Magazine The finite element method can provide insights needed by engineers to calibrate thermal processes, whether it's ...
Ion Nitriding of Titanium Alloys for Gear Applications
Source: Thermal Processing for Gear SolutionsThe advantages of ion nitriding heat treatments in many low-alloy steels and titanium alloy gears ...
Quality Counts: Gas Nitriding
Source: Thermal Processing for Gear Solutions In general, nitriding of parts involves a thermal process that provides a tough, corrosion-resistant, ...
