Some Popular Heat Treatment Processes
The procedure used for modifying the physical and mechanical properties of metals without changing its formation is popularly known as heat treatment. This process mainly increases the strength the of the material. It is also used for modifying the objectives of few material aspect manufacturability such as restoring the ductility after the cooling process, improving machine process and its formability. Its also used for manufacturing materials such as glass. The material's performance is somewhat improved by the heat treat process. It is basically the metallurgical methods where heat treat is applied. In order to attain the desired results like hardening and softening of the materials, this method is used which includes heating and cooling of such products from the moderate to high temperature. The heat treat process involves aging, carbonitriding, annealing, carburising, hardening, homogenising, induction hardening, induction annealing, normalizing, shot blasting, case hardenin...