Heat Treatment

It is the process of using heating or chilling to extreme temperatures to achieve hardening or softening of a material.

• Methods

  • Annealing
  • Aging / Precipitation Hardening
  • Tempering
  • Quenching
  • Carburizing / Decarburizing
  • Cold or Cryogenic Treatment
  • Selective Heat Treatment
    • Differential Hardening
    • Flame Hardening
    • Induction Hardening
    • Case Hardening

• Annealing

  • Of Metals
    • -
  • Of Glass
    • -

• Softening Point

  • $\eta \approx 10^{7.6}$ Poise

• Annealing Point

  • $\eta =10^{13}$ Poise

• Strain Point

  • $\eta =10^{14.5}$ Poise