We continue to review some of the most important materials in heat treatment and metallurgy.  

This series on trends and developments in heat-treatment technology continues.

We continue to review some of the most important materials in heat treatment and metallurgy.  

What scientific fields help the failure analyst understand the situations they investigate?

The advent of plasma processing technology for surface treatments resulted in many new opportunities for developing treatment processes.

Picking up where we left off, here’s where the tiny size of the interstitial atom comes into play! Because it is so small, it is only weakly “bonded” into the BFM atomic structure and is thus able to quickly diffuse through that atomic structure.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”) issued an important ruling regarding the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “PTAB”) in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., __ F.3d __ (Fed. Cir. October 30, 2019). Specifically, the Federal Circuit held that the appointment process for administrative law judges violates the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

We continue to review some of the most important materials in heat treatment and metallurgy.

We are reviewing the developments that have taken place within the heat-treatment processing industry on an international basis.

Question: I have heard the terms "isothermal solidification" in reference to brazing, but I don’t really understand what it means or how to use it. Can you clarify this for me so that I can determine if it is something that I could use in some of my brazing operations?