Case hardening is a technique in which the metal surface is reinforced by the adding…

Marquenching/Martempering is a form of heat treatment applied as an interrupted quench of steels typically…

Austempering is a heat treating process for medium-to-high carbon ferrous metals which produces a metallurgical…

“This is a classic test to evaluate how heat treatments affect steel properties” Steel can…

A measure of how easy it is to fully harden a steel is known as…

Tempering is a low temperature (below A1) heat treatment process normally performed after neutral hardening,…

Normalising aims to give the steel a uniform and fine-grained structure. The process is used…

Spheroidizing refers to a heat treatment material modification process that is used to convert granular…

Recrystallisation is a process accomplished by heating whereby deformed grains are replaced by a new…

Stress relieving is carried out on metal products in order to minimise residual stresses in…