Multiple tempering is effective in decreasing the amount of austenite retained in A and D steels and is a common practice in heat-treating them.
Ipsen AvaC two-chamber gas/oil furnace doubles carbon availability
Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., recently shipped an AvaC (acetylene vacuum carburizing) two-chamber gas/oil quench vacuum furnace to a facility in Connecticut where it will be used to process sports equipment.
Leco hardness testing system includes advanced image recognition
Leco Corp., St. Joseph, Mich., introduces the AMH55 hardness testing system with advanced image-recognition technology, which allows analysis of information not available with limited threshold-based methods.
High-strength magnesium-lithium alloy weighs half as much as aluminum
The University of New South Wales and Monash University, Australia, announce that a team of researchers has developed a high-strength magnesium-lithium alloy with density of 1.4?g/cm3, half as much as aluminum and 30% less than magnesium.
SSAB to deliver 25,000 metric tons of Galfan-coated high-strength steel for power plants
SSAB, Sweden, has agreed to deliver a total of 25,000 metric tons of metal-coated, high-strength steel to the Spanish company CIE Egana to build support arms for parabolic reflectors in thermosolar plants.