Metallurgists and heat-treat professionals have traditionally used a small number of parts for destructive testing to verify proper heat-treat processes. In today’s competitive manufacturing environment, sample destructive testing alone is not sufficient to ensure zero-defect policies.
The preferred manufacturing method for reliably creating hard, wear-resistant component surfaces is induction hardening. The surface material’s metallurgical structure is transformed (hardened) through a well-controlled sequence of induction heating and rapid cooling (quenching).
The main physical principle of an electric arc furnace is the transfer of energy from the electricity line to the furnace through heat radiation and conduction generated by an electric arc.
The nuclear industry is expanding, and the heat-treating community needs to keep pace. This article provides a brief overview of nuclear power, discusses the sintering applications and takes us into the future of the industry.
