Heat Treatment of Metals

Question 1

What is heat treatment

Answer 1

changing the structural of materials to improve its mechanical properties, such as strength and hardness, and is mostly applied after the part’s geometry has been defined

Question 2

key terminology

Answer 2

Annealing - softening the metal back to its original pre-work hardened properties
Hardening - Using controlled heating and cooling to increase the hardness of the metal
Tempering - using controlled heating to reduce hardness
Quenching - the act of rapidly cooling the worked part in oil, water, or another fluid

Question 3

how is the annealing processed done

Answer 3

it resets the crystallization formation of the material back to its normal elastic and yielding behavior