The purpose of normalizing steel is to form a uniform and as fine-grained as possible structure with a rather round grain, independent of the pre-treatment. Unalloyed steels in particular have the...
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Stress relief annealing serves to reduce internal stresses (= residual stresses) in the workpiece. For steel, it is usually carried out in a temperature range of 550 to 650°C – i.e. below AC1,...
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Do you want to pre-heat or stress-relieve one or more objects? Induction heating is an excellent option for both. This effective technique works on the basis of alternating current, which ensures...
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Smit Industrial Heat Treatment is well-known for not shying away from challenges, and to always explore flexible solutions for even the most complex issues. The success of the heat treatment...
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In order to reduce the occurrence of thermal stresses in steel during welding work, the material can be preheated. After welding – or another treatment – the material can be annealed for...
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A PWHT procedure (Post Weld Heat Treatment) is where the regulations and requirements for a heat treatment are recorded in a quality document in advance. This guarantees the required result. For such...
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Students of the Cologne Technical University of Applied Sciences recently developed the STEEREON as their thesis project: a highly manoeuvrable and remarkably compact electric folding bicycle, which...
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