Heat Treatment

Conventional and Novel Applications

Frank Czerwinski

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9789535107682
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535162384
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Thermodynamics

Heat treatment and surface engineering are seen as crucial elements in the design and manufacture of strategic components in a wide range of market sectors and industries including air, sea and land transportation, energy production, mining, defense or agriculture. This book offers a broad review of recent global developments in an application of thermal and thermochemical processing to modify the microstructure and properties of a wide range of engineering materials. Although there is no formal partition of the book, chapters represent two different application areas of heat treatment. The first group covers the conventional heat treatment with processing of bearing rings, wrought and cast steels, aluminum alloys, fundamentals of thermochemical treatment, details of carbonitriding and a design of cooling units. The second group describes a use of non-conventional thermal routes during manufacturing cycles of such materials as vanadium carbides, titanium dioxide, metallic glasses, superconducting ceramics, nanoparticles, metal oxides, battery materials and slag mortars. A mixture of conventional and novel applications, exploring a variety of processes employing heating, quenching and thermal diffusion, makes the book very useful for a broad audience of scientists and engineers from academia and industry.

Table of contents

• Heat Treatment - Conventional and Novel Applications
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Design of Cooling Units for Heat Treatment
• Chapter 2 Regenerative Heat Treatment of Low Alloy Cast Steel
• Chapter 3 Deformation Reduction of Bearing Rings by Modification of Heat Treating
• Chapter 4 A Review on the Heat Treatment of Al-Si-Cu/Mg Casting Alloys
• Chapter 5 Thermochemical Treatment of Metals
• Chapter 6 Carbonitriding of Materials in Low Temperature Plasma
• Chapter 7 Methodology of Thermal Research in Materials Engineering
• Chapter 8 Effects of Heat Treatments on the Thermoluminescence and Optically Stimulated Luminescence of Nanostructured Aluminate Doped with Rare-Earth and Semi-Metal Chemical Element
• Chapter 9 Post Deposition Heat Treatment Effects on Ceramic Superconducting Films Produced by Infrared Nd:YAG Pulsed Laser Deposition
• Chapter 10 Synthesis, Characterization and Properties of Zirconium Oxide (ZrO2)-Doped Titanium Oxide (TiO2) Thin Films Obtained via Sol-Gel Process
• Chapter 11 Novel Pt and Pd Based Core-Shell Catalysts with Critical New Issues of Heat Treatment, Stability and Durability for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells and Direct Methanol Fuel Cells
• Chapter 12 Monitoring the Effects of Thermal Treatment on Properties and Performance During Battery Material Synthesis
• Chapter 13 Heat Treatment in Molecular Precursor Method for Fabricating Metal Oxide Thin Films
• Chapter 14 Lithium Niobiosilicate Glasses Thermally Treated
• Chapter 15 Cooling – As a “Heat Treatment” for the Mechanical Behavior of the Bulk Metallic Glass Alloys
• Chapter 16 Using "Heat Treatment" Method for Activation of OPC-Slag Mortars