Quenching Technical Content

All About the Quench and Keeping Cool: Thru-process Temp Monitoring and Gas Carburizing
The future of heat treating requires new manufacturing solutions like robotics that can work with modular design. Yet so also does ...
Common Automotive Heat Treat Processes To Get Into Gear
How long have you been heat treating automotive gears? Which thermal processing techniques do your operations gravitate towards? In this best ...
It’s Time for Another Look at Vacuum Oil Quenching
Oil quenching can be a dirty phrase around the heat treat shop. But with vacuum, does it have to be? This ...
“Quench” Your Thirst: 3 Technical Articles To Satisfy Your Needs
Thirsting for knowledge about quenching, but not sure where to start? Heat Treat Today has coalesced technical information across articles and ...
Discover the DNA of Automotive Heat Treat: Thru-Process Temperature Monitoring
In addressing the challenges of modern automated production flow, thru-process temperature monitoring and process validation strategies provide viable options in the ...
Induction Through Heating + Intensive Quenching: A “Green Ticket” for Steel Parts
On site at heat treat operations, gas-fired furnaces can be a significant source of carbon emissions. But depending on the desired ...
Not To Be Neglected: Heat Treat Furnace Maintenance Tips
Fundamentals of furnace maintenance sometimes fall between that tricky area of realizing their importance and getting pushed to the end of ...
Heat Treat Quench Questions Answered with Radio Review
Twice a month, Heat Treat Today publishes an episode of Heat Treat Radio, an industry-specific podcast that covers topics in the ...
Heat Treat Radio #79: All Things Auto Industry Quenching with Scott MacKenzie
Heat Treat Radio host and Heat Treat Today publisher, Doug Glenn, sits down with Dr. D. Scott MacKenzie, the senior research ...
Deep Cryogenics 101
Heat treaters often target gas nitriding and carburizing as key additions to their facility, but sometimes they miss a low-cost opportunity ...
Heat Treat Radio #74: Water in Your Quench with Greg Steiger, Idemitsu
Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, talks with Greg Steiger of Idemitsu Lubricants America Corp. about the causes and dangers of ...
Heat Treat Radio Snapshots
Twice a month, Heat Treat Today publishes an episode of Heat Treat Radio, a unique-to-the-industry podcast. Hear some good news about ...
Care and Maintenance of Polymer Quenchants
In induction hardening, power supply, generator issues, and coil problems can all cause damage to parts. Consider one more area where ...
Vacuum Gas Cooling: Pressure vs. Velocity, Part 1 of 2
There is an age-old adage that exists in the heat treating world. That supposition states that "the smaller the vacuum furnace, ...
Heat Treat Radio #68: The Greenness and Goodness of Salt Quenching with Bill Disler
Quenching is typically associated with oil, water, or high pressure gas quenching. But Bill Disler from AFC-Holcroft suggests that we not ...
The Chemistry Behind the Process: 6 Heat Treat Tips for Brazing, Induction, and Quenching
We’ve assembled some of the top 101 Heat Treat Tips that heat treating professionals submitted over the last three years into today's original content. ...
Two Cost-Effective Applications for Intensive Quenching of Steel Parts
The Intensive Quench (IQ) process is an alternative way of quenching steel. It involves a very rapid and uniform cooling of ...
The Clean and Pure: 8 Heat Treat Tips
Want a free tip? Check out this read of some of the top 101 Heat Treat Tips that heat treating professionals submitted ...
Industry-Academia Partnership Developing New Jominy End-Quench Test
Heat Treat Today was honored with the opportunity to visit the University of Akron and meet several senior engineering students in ...
Fatigue Improvement for Gear Steels in Helicopter Powertrains, Phase 2
"A compressive surface stress can benefit bend fatigue performance by reducing the mean stress experienced during service, effectively offsetting the tensile ...
Fatigue Improvement for Gear Steels in Helicopter Powertrains
What do helicopter gears and heat treat modeling have to do with improving the bend fatigue performance of low-alloy gear steels? ...
The Selection, Care, and Maintenance of a Polymer Quenchant
"Many metallurgists or heat treat engineers only think in terms of water or oil for quenching steel. Water is the most ...
Effective Integral Quench Furnace Maintenance
Considerable investment is made when purchasing a batch integral quench (BIQ) furnace. These popular furnaces need specific care and maintenance to ...
Thermal Processing for Firearms: The Essential Guide
What do gas nitriding, hot isostatic pressing (HIPing), black oxide coating, and high pressure gas quenching have in common? They all ...
Heat Treat Radio #44: Rethinking Heat Treating (Part 4 of 4) — Direct from the Forge
In this episode, Heat Treat Radio host Doug Glenn talks with Joe Powell of Integrated Heat Treating Solutions in this fourth and final episode ...
Heat Treat Tips: Brazing, Money Flow, and Quench Maintenance
One of the great benefits of a community of heat treaters is the opportunity to challenge old habits and look at ...
Heat Treat Radio #41: Rethinking Heat Treating (Part 3 of 4) — The Fracking Pump Valve Seat
Heat Treat Radio host Doug Glenn talks with Joe Powell of Integrated Heat Treating Solutions in this third of a four ...
Heat Treating With Salts
Jerry Dwyer Market Manager Hubbard-Hall "Successful heat treating begins by understanding the make-up of the steel that is to be treated." Heat ...
How CQI-9 Compliant Quench Oil Analysis Can Aid in Proper Care of Quench Oil
CQI-9 compliance demands adherence to the standards for the purpose of excellence in automotive heat treating. Poorly maintained quench oil can ...
Heat Treater vs. Water: Best Practices to Avoid Water Contamination
Heat treaters have their processes down to a science, literally. But what factor can compromise your heat treated part, let alone ...
Heat Treat Radio #37: Rethinking Heat Treating for the 21st Century with Joe Powell (Part 1 of 4)
In this 4-part series, Heat Treat Radio host, Doug Glenn, talks with Joe Powell of Integrated Heat Treating Solutions about bringing heat ...
Heat Treat TV: The Quenching Mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop
Heat Treat TV pulls the best heat treat videos from the web for your viewing, and today Heat Treat TV highlights the pressurizing ...
Best of Both Worlds in Polymer Quenching
Jerry Dwyer, Marketing Manager, Hubbard-Hall "The success of most heat treating processes comes down to the battle between time v. temperature..." ...
Demonstrating Oil Quenching Effectiveness
In this article by Lee Gearhart, Principal Engineer, Materials and Processes, Moog, Inc., and Chair, Aerospace Metals Engineering Committee, read about ...
Process Innovation to Reduce Distortion During Gas Quenching
“High-pressure gas quenching (HPGQ) attempts to reduce temperature nonuniformities by reducing the cooling rate; however, this is generally not sufficient to ...
Heat Treat Tips: Aqueous Quenching
One of the great benefits of a community of heat treaters is the opportunity to challenge old habits and look at ...
Using Virtual Tools for Quenching Process Design
By validating CFD simulation results with thermocouple data, Ford Motor Company is now using virtual tools to study aluminum cylinder head ...
Distortion Analysis of Landing Gear During Oil Quench: A Case Study
Charlie Li A thermal process modeling company used its heat treatment simulation software to explore oil quench sensitivities on the distortion ...
Heat Treat Tips: Quenching
During the day-to-day operation of heat treat departments, many habits are formed and procedures followed that sometimes are done simply because ...
Testing Underway for Innovative Gas Quenching Unit
  A Cleveland-based heat treatment software and engineering firm, specializing in metallurgical process engineering and thermal/stress analysis of metal parts, recently announced ...
Joe Powell Comments on Marquenching and Austempering
Last week, we ran a news release about ThermoFusion in California expanding their heat treat capabilities to include marquenching and austempering ...
Distortion of Gears and Sliding Sleeves for Truck Gear Boxes – a Systematical Analysis of Different Heat Treatment Concepts
  Schüler, J. Kleff, V. Heuer, G. Schmitt, T. Leist   A systematical approach regarding different distortion potentials in the process ...



 

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