Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design

Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design covers the basic principles of heat treatment and the equipment used in modern industrial settings. It offers detailed coverage of induction heat treatment, important types of furnaces, heat transfer, cooling processes, modeling, computation, power supplies, laser treatments, residual stress and loading, microstructural analysis, and quality control. The book features thoroughly updated and new information, most notably in the chapters on vacuum heat processing, designing quench processes, laser hardening, and metallurgical property testing.