Consolidated Engineering Co., Kennesaw, Ga., announces that it has received a purchase order for a mobile gantry drop bottom heat treat furnace system from a leading provider of aluminum alloys for aerospace applications.
Belt casting to cut steel production costs, enable casting of TWIP and TRIP steels
The University of Warwick, England, announces that engineers at its Advanced Steels Research Centre are evaluating belt casting technology as a way to cut steel production costs and reduce energy costs by a factor of three.
Portable heat treating system reduces crack sensitivity in aluminum plate
The Navy Metalworking Center, Johnstown, Pa., reports that it has designed and fabricated a heat treating system for aluminum plate that reduces sensitivity to cracking in the aluminum superstructure of the U.S. Navy’s CG 47 class cruisers.
Scanning lasers evaluated as part of an industrial process for hardening steel
Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country, Spain, say they have validated a laser scanning optics system that may enable laser hardening of steel parts of varying shape and thickness at an industrial scale.
One Minute Mentor: The S-Phase
The success of plasma and gas nitriding at low temperatures (lower than 840°F) and solution nitriding at high temperatures is associated with the absence of chromium nitride or carbide precipitation, and thus with the formation in the surface layer of a particular phase called the S-phase.