For home metallurgy, there are two sources of information for the heat treatment and tempering of steel. The first source is academic publications that include theoretical information, while the ...

Alloys are materials that are made by combining two or more materials to obtain a composite that possesses superior properties than any of its components on its own. The properties of alloys can be ...

The properties of steel can be improved in terms of fatigue, weldability, hardness, wear and corrosion resistance, ductility, and tensile strength by either alloy addition or heat treatment processes.

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...

THE third edition of this well-known treatise has been greatly improved, and it is now almost indispensable to the steel metallurgist, on account of the detailed records of the heat treatment and ...

A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers recently when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record -- in less than 10 seconds. In fact, the ...

Family-owned and operated companies Commercial Steel Treating Corporation of Madison Heights and Curtis Metal Finishing Company of Sterling Heights are each celebrating a landmark anniversary this ...

SSAB, a Sweden-based manufacturer of value added, high strength steel, has broken ground on a new heat treating facility for quenched and tempered steels. The company plans to invest close to $300 ...

THE heat treatment of steels is an art of recent growth. Twenty years ago it could scarcely be said to exist. Such as it was, it usually consisted in “heating to a red heat” for annealing, or perhaps ...