carburizing
Generally used to improve the properties of the metal. For example to make it tougher or harder. Metals that have been cold worked will have areas of built up stress, which will waken the metal. Heat treatment can be used to remove the weak areas. Which heat treament is used depends on the desired properties of the final metal. Some examples are : Annealing Normalizing Quench Hardening Case hardening
can we reduce the heat treatment time in carbon steel through normalizing instead of annealing?
Specific heat of sinter
"Flame" is the visible energy when burning something. "Heat" is given off a flame and countless other things. Flame produces heat, but heat does not always generate from flame, and heat almost never produces flame (friction might count). And if you want the definitions: HEAT: a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature. FLAME: the process of combustion of materials producing heat and light and (often) smoke. If you want to think of it a different way: Flame is what you see when you look at a fire and heat if what you feel from the fire.
A heat sink is usually something that draws something away from an electrical componet (Ex: ICU's, Processors and transistors) APEX- A device that absorbs and draws heat from a hot object, dispersing it into the surroundings.
In short, heat treating is used to achieve the desired properties of the alloy such as hardening or softening. There are multiple methods used to do this, annealing, quenching, and tempering are a few.
stainless steel
Precipitation hardening, or age hardening, is a heat treatment process used to increase the strength and hardness of certain metal alloys. It involves heating the material to a specific temperature, holding it there for a period of time, then cooling it rapidly to room temperature. This process allows fine particles or precipitates to form within the metal structure, strengthening it.
H.C Child has written: 'Surface hardening of steel' -- subject(s): Heat treatment, Steel, Surface hardening
Gareth O'Rourke has written: 'The cryogenic heat treatment of tool steels' -- subject(s): Heat treatment, Tool-steel, Low temperature engineering
Jafar Rassizadehghani has written: 'Intercritical heat treatment of C-Mn and 8630 type cast steels' -- subject(s): Carbon steel, Cast Steel, Heat treatment
To make a hammer, the main heat treatment processes involved are heat treating for hardening and tempering. The hammer head is heated to a specific temperature for hardening, then quenched in a cooling medium to achieve the desired hardness. Tempering is then done by reheating the hardened hammer head to a lower temperature to improve toughness and reduce brittleness.
Ferritic and austenitic stainless steels are not heat treatable since "heat treatable" is taken to mean that martensite may be made to form with relative ease upon quenching austenite from an elevated temperature. For ferritic stainless steels, austenite does not form upon heating, and, therefore, the austenite-to-martensite transformation is not possible. For austenitic stainless steels, the austenite phase field extends to such low temperatures that the martensitic transformation does not occur.
Generally used to improve the properties of the metal. For example to make it tougher or harder. Metals that have been cold worked will have areas of built up stress, which will waken the metal. Heat treatment can be used to remove the weak areas. Which heat treament is used depends on the desired properties of the final metal. Some examples are : Annealing Normalizing Quench Hardening Case hardening
Carburizing is a method of hardening iron or steel by a heat treatment that causes it to absorb carbon liberated from a carbon bearing material, such as charcoal or carbon monoxide.
Heat makes metal more malleable.
Not possible...the maximum hardness MS can have is 0.03mm by flame hardening...