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2023 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
2. Heat Treatment of Steels
Authors : José Ignacio Verdeja González, Daniel Fernández-González, Luis Felipe Verdeja González
Published in: Physical Metallurgy and Heat Treatment of Steel
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
This chapter is devoted to the treatments of steel that involve heating the part until a certain temperature followed by cooling. We start with the different types of annealing treatments aimed at different objectives and continue later with one of the most relevant heat treatments applied to steels: the quenching and tempering, which are used with the objective of increasing the hardness of the part while toughness does not get worse. We describe the main parameters of the quenching and tempering process, as well as the process. The chapter concludes with the case hardening, isothermal treatments (patenting), and low-carbon aging steels treatments. Some solved exercises and case studies complement the contents presented in this chapter.