GE Additive, Cincinnati, announces that it has purchased an Arcam EBM Spectra H metal additive manufacturing system, which is designed to handle materials susceptible to high heat and cracking.
Continue readingATI to invest $95 million to expand isothermal forging and heat treating center in Cudahy
ATI Metals Inc., Pittsburgh, announces that its board of directors has approved an investment to expand its isothermal forging and heat treating capacities to satisfy growing demand from the aerospace jet engine market.
Continue readingResidual Stress Workshop at Thermal Processing in Motion Conference
This Workshop will collect information on current gaps relative to designing products and establishing product definitions that include Bulk Residual Stress as a component attribute. Concepts for possible Industry Standards will be proposed to support enhanced product capabilities.
Continue readingOne Minute Mentor: Maraging steels
Maraging steels are made of highly alloyed low-carbon iron-nickel martensite, and they possess an excellent combination of strength and toughness that is superior to that of most carbon-hardened steels.
Continue readingSolar Atmospheres installs Haas VF2 milling center to support tensile testing service
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA, Hermitage, recently installed a second machining center to support its newest service for customers – tensile testing.
Continue readingIpsen ships ten heat treating furnaces for aerospace, medical, and other industries
Ipsen USA, Cherry Valley, Ill., announces that in the first quarter it shipped ten furnaces to companies that process parts for the aerospace, commercial heat treating, and medical industries in California, Georgia, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin, and also to one location in Asia.
Continue readingNatural-gas-fired box furnaces to develop process control requirements for drill heads
Lindberg MPH, Riverside, Mich., has shipped three natural-gas-fired box furnaces to a parts manufacturer for the oil and gas industry to develop process control requirements for heat-treating and stress relieving of underground mining/drill heads.
Continue readingIndia conglomerate awards CanEng contract to build aluminum casting heat treatment system
Can-Eng Furnaces Intl. Ltd., Niagara Falls, Ontario, was recently awarded a contract from an India based conglomerate to design, manufacture, install, and commission an aluminum automotive casting heat treatment system for a new greenfield facility in South Carolina.
Continue readingFerritic Nitrocarburizing: Demystifying the Process
This topic will be discussed by William J. Bernard III of Surface Combustion at the Thermal Processing in Motion conference.
The case hardening process known as ferritic nitrocarburizing (FNC) has seen increased interest recently in the transportation and mobility industries due its ability to impart strength and wear resistance to steels and cast irons, with the added inherent benefit of less part distortion as compared to austenitic processes such as carburizing and carbonitriding.
There are numerous trademarked, standardized, or proprietary nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing recipes and control methods used in various types of industrial furnaces. With the myriad process options available, it can be confusing for designers to understand which of these processes are best for their parts.
To help make the selection, Surface Combustion has developed a new tool to predict the in-process composition of nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing atmospheres. The activities and potentials of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen can be found, leading to prediction of the associated equilibrium phase on the part surface.
The theory behind the tool and the application of the tool to control nitriding and ferritic nitrocarburizing atmospheres will be discussed. An overview of different furnace designs and case studies of commercial installations will also be presented.
Mr. William J Bernard III , Surface Combustion, Maumee, Ohio
Tuesday, June 5, 2018: 4:00 PM
Heritage ABC (Spartanburg Marriott)
Thermal Processing in Motion conference
June 5-7, 2018
Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg Marriott
Learn more and register here:
https://www.asminternational.org/web/thermal-processing-in-motion/home
Friction stir dovetailing creates metallurgical bond between aluminum and steel plate
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Wash., announces that its engineers have developed and successfully tested a novel process called friction stir dovetailing that enables joining thick plates of aluminum and steel.
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