Austenitizing temperatures for water-hardening tool steels normally vary from 1400 to 1550°F. Higher temperatures are sometimes used for special purposes.
Continue readingWPI team studies how cracks form in aircraft wings and fuselages
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Mass., announces that a research team will conduct comprehensive testing and characterization studies to understand and monitor how stress and fatigue cause microscopic damage in metal components.
Continue readingCompact PlanarMet 300 grinder combines three grinding stages into one step
Buehler, an ITW Company, Lake Bluff, Ill., introduces the PlanarMet 300, a new compact benchtop planar grinder built for fast and efficient grinding with high flatness and maximum edge retention.
Continue readingLow-pressure carbonitration developed for case hardening
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, reports that its engineers are now working on low-pressure carbonitration, a process for the case hardening of low-alloy steel with methylamine.
Continue readingLindberg/MPH ships aluminum immersion holding furnace to automotive supplier
Lindberg/MPH, Riverside, Mich., announces the shipment of an electric immersion aluminum holding furnace for a leader in the automotive parts industry to maintain aluminum at the required temperature for die casting.
Continue readingBuehler introduces fully automated hardness tester
Buehler, Lake Bluff, Ill., an ITW company, created the fully automatic Wilson VH3300 Vickers/Knoop hardness test system to meet virtually any requirement in the area of automated precision micro hardness testing.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Hardening Type W1 Tool Steels
W1 steels are capable of hardening to high surface hardness and soft core which is useful in some shock applications.
Continue readingAir Liquide agrees to acquire Airgas for $13.4 billion
Air Liquide, Paris, and Airgas, Radnor, Pa., announce an agreement under which Air Liquide will acquire Airgas for $143 per share for all outstanding shares of Airgas, representing a total enterprise value of $13.4 billion.
Continue readingCan-Eng receives contracts for continuous mesh belt furnace systems
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, recently received four contracts for the design, manufacture, and commissioning of its 6000 lb/hour continuous mesh belt atmosphere furnace system.
Continue readingISTFA 2015 breaks attendance records
The International Symposium for Testing & Failure Analysis (ISTFA) 2015 took Portland, Ore., by storm last week with record attendance and fun new events.
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