Heat Treatment
It is the process of using heating or chilling to extreme temperatures to achieve hardening or softening of a material.
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Methods
- Annealing
- Aging / Precipitation Hardening
- Tempering
- Quenching
- Carburizing / Decarburizing
- Cold or Cryogenic Treatment
- Selective Heat Treatment
- Differential Hardening
- Flame Hardening
- Induction Hardening
- Case Hardening
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Annealing
- Of Metals
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- Of Glass
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- Of Metals
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Softening Point
- \(\eta \approx 10^{7.6}\) Poise
- Annealing Point
- \(\eta=10^{13}\) Poise
- Strain Point
- \(\eta=10^{14.5}\) Poise