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Why is heat treatment necessary?
Heat treatment is commonly used to alter or strengthen materials’ structure through a heating and cooling process. It offers many advantages, including: It can change a material’s physical (mechanical) properties and it aids in other manufacturing steps. It relieves stresses, making the part easier to machine or weld.
What is the effect of post weld heating?
The results show that the post-weld heat-treatment:(i) improves the toughness by about 15\%, without making any significant difference to the tensile strength and the hardness; and (ii) has the significant effect of reducing the residual stresses by about 70\%.
Why is heat treatment important in metals?
The most common reasons that metals undergo heat treatment are to improve their strength, hardness, toughness, ductility, and corrosion resistance. In this process, the metal is heated above its upper critical temperature to change its microstructure. Afterward, the metal is slow-cooled.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of heat treatment?
Advantages and disadvantages of heat treatment of metals: Heat treatment helps to get desired mechanical and chemical properties, to reduce stresses, prevent stress relief and distortion when put to service. Whilst the disadvantages include distortion, surface oxidation or other contamination, added cost, etc.
What is one of the main reasons for heat treating some steels?
Heat Treatment of Steel is usually intended to accomplish any one of the following objectives :
- Remove stresses induced by cold working or to remove stresses set up by non uniform cooling of hot metal objects.
- Refine the grain structure of hot worked steels which may have developed coarse grain size.
Why induction hardening is required?
Induction hardening is a heat treatment process carried out to enhance the mechanical properties in a localised area of a ferrous component. The resultant hardened area improves the wear and fatigue resistances along with strength characteristics. Induction hardening is used to strengthen a specific area of a part.
What is post forming heat treatment?
In this process, all forming of the component is completed at room temperatures, followed by heating the component to roughly 850-900ºC. The component is then quenched to martensite using a water cooled die. This process is termed as Form Hardening.
Why stress relieving is required after welding?
In most cases, stress relieving is done to regain dimensional tolerance and to reduce distortion. Distortion occurs due to the rapid and uneven heating and cooling of the weld metal and the surrounding base metal. It pulls the top closer because there is more weld metal towards to the top of the joint.
How do you post heat treatment?
Post weld heat treatment (PWHT) is a controlled process in which a material that has been welded is reheated to a temperature below its lower critical transformation temperature, and then it is held at that temperature for a specified amount of time.