This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...

Alloys are materials that are made by combining two or more materials to obtain a composite that possesses superior properties than any of its components on its own. The properties of alloys can be ...

"Essentials of Heat Treatment" provides a through introduction to steel heat treatment, including a discussion of how heat and carbon content impact a steel's microstructure. This class also describes ...

For home metallurgy, there are two sources of information for the heat treatment and tempering of steel. The first source is academic publications that include theoretical information, while the ...

The properties of steel can be improved in terms of fatigue, weldability, hardness, wear and corrosion resistance, ductility, and tensile strength by either alloy addition or heat treatment processes.

A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, ...

After selling the metal heat-treating company he built in postwar Chicago and moving to Rancho Santa Fe in 1971, Ed McCrink went into semiretirement. But years later, McCrink couldn’t give up on ...

Back in 2011, we wrote about a fascinating new way to heat-treat regular, cheap steel to endow it with an almost miraculous blend of characteristics. Radically cheaper, quicker and less ...

THE heat treatment of steels is an art of recent growth. Twenty years ago it could scarcely be said to exist. Such as it was, it usually consisted in “heating to a red heat” for annealing, or perhaps ...

Essentials of Heat Treatment provides a thorough introduction to steel heat treatment, including a discussion of how heat and carbon content impact a steel's microstructure. This class also describes ...