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Engineers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, Mass., will present a discussion of methods to determine the amounts of various microstructures in steel during heat treating, at Heat Treat 2019.

Engineers from Gasbarre Thermal Processing Systems, Cranston, R.I., will present a discussion of modular vacuum furnaces that allow companies to adapt as their products evolve, or as their product line expands, at Heat Treat 2019.

Higher hardening temperatures are required for products machined from small bar sizes that have been annealed various times during thermomechanical processing.

Engineers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS Dresden, Germany, report that they have developed a new ceramic heat shield technology in which a fine powder of yttrium-stabilized zirconium oxide (YSZ) is added to water to form a suspension.

Engineers from Bodycote, Germany and England, will discuss the influence of machining on the surface hardness and corrosion resistance of austenitic stainless steels at Heat Treat 2019.

Engineers from Solar Atmospheres, Souderton, Pa., will present a discussion at Heat Treat 2019 about the use of nitrogen rather than hydrogen as the diluting gas during ammonia gas nitriding for safety, economic, and environmental reasons.