The water hardening types of tool steel are covered by AS1239 ‘W’ grades and these are shallow hardening. These steels contain around 1% carbon and may have small additions of vanadium for grain ...

Researchers have validated the use of moving optics for laser hardening, which allows the process to be adapted to the shape of the part Hardening is a surface heat treatment applied to steel parts ...

During the production of a metal, the manufacturing process is marked by careful regulation of the mechanical properties of the wrought metal. However, these may undergo change later on when the ...

Cold-work steels are high carbon steels containing low alloy additions of molybdenum, tungsten, chromium and manganese. The additions of these alloys allow oil quenching with less distortion and they ...

Russian state corporation Rosatom says that for the first time it has used its own technology for laser strengthening of steel in the manufacturing of rotor parts of turbine pumps for nuclear power ...

AT the May meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute two papers were read and discussed dealing with the theory of the hardening of steel; they gave rise to one of the most interesting discussions of ...

Following the boom conditions of the past decade, the crisis-induced slowdown of the past few years has not disturbed the sector so much. Instead, striving to keep pace with demand, the rise of ...

Engineers in Germany are working on a new steel hardening process that they claim holds promise for the development of downsized car engines. The team, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ...