Induction Tempering Archives

November 30th, 2017

Induction Heating: Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask (December 2017)

Question of the Month: What is the difference between auto-tempering and self-tempering? Answer: Sometimes the terms auto-tempering and self-tempering are incorrectly used interchangeably. Here we will explore the differences […]

June 1st, 2012

FEA Modeling of Thread Annealing Using Induction Heating

Important processing steps after hardening a steel part include tempering, stress relieving, and subcritical annealing. The transformation to martensite through quenching creates a very hard structure with low ductility. Untempered […]

June 3rd, 2010

Intricacies of Induction Tempering Auto Industry

Tempering is always a reasonable comprimize between maintaining the required hardness and obtaining low-stress, tough and ductile microstructure in the metal. Generally speaking, there are two different types of stresses: […]

April 26th, 2010

Induction vs Oven Tempering pt. 2

It has been shown that a comparison of the properties of carbon steel parts processed with both types of tempering regardless of the identical hardness (48HRC) the tempered carbon steel […]

March 22nd, 2010

Induction tempering vs oven tempering pt2.

The transformation to martensite through quenching creates a very hard and brittle structure. Un-tempered martensite is typically too brittle for commercial use and retains a large amount of internal residual […]