Quenching and Carburising

Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar of the International Federation for Heat Treatment (Melbourne, 1991)

Peter D. Hodgson

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040277744
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Materials Science

Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar of the International Federation for Heat Treatment held in Melbourne, in 1991 with the special focus on 'Quenching and Carburising'. Quenching and Carburising are two of the most basic and widely practised steel heat treatment processes. Each allows the base properties and performance of the steel to be significantly enhanced, such that a relatively inexpensive and simple starting material can be used for a wide range of demanding applications. Nevertheless, the technological developments within those two processes are often ignored in favour of 'high tech' surface treatments. The aim of Quenching and Carburising was to review the recent advancements that have been made in these fields.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 State of the art in quenching
• 2 Measurement and evaluation of the quenching power of quenching media for hardening
• 3 Quench severity effects on the properties of selected steel alloys
• 4 Use and disposal of quenching media. Recent developments with respect to environmental regulations
• 5 Use of fluidised beds for quenching in the heat treatment field
• 6 Gas quenching with helium in vacuum furnaces
• 7 Residual stress in quenched spheres
• 8 Computer simulation of residual stresses during quenching
• 9 A mathematical model to simulate the thermomechanical processing of steel
• 10 Measurement and characterisation of air-mist nozzles for spray quenching heat transfer
• 11 Investigation of quenching conditions and heat transfer in the laboratory and in industry
• 12 The design and performance of a laboratory spray cooling unit to simulate in-line heat treatment of steel
• 13 Microstructure, residual stresses and fatigue of carburised steels
• 14 Fundamentals of carburising and toughness of carburised components
• 15 Martempering and austempering of steel and cast iron
• 16 Property prediction of quenched and case hardened steels using a PC
• 17 Effect of carburising on mechanical properties of steels
• 18 Heat treatment with industrial gases - Linde Carbocat and Carboquick processes
• Index