Source: Total Materia
In honor of Presidents' Day, Heat Treat Today takes a cue from the U.S. penny, where we find embossed on the copper coin the image of one of the two U.S. presidents celebrated on this day, President Abraham Lincoln (16th). The link below will lead you to an article on the basics of heat treating copper and copper alloys; their end products, including wire and cable, sheet, strip, plate, rod, bars, tubing, forgings, castings, and powder metallurgy shapes; and the purposes for heat treating these metals, such as homogenizing, annealing, stress relieving, and precipitation hardening.
Read more: "Heat Treating of Copper and Copper Alloys"
