According to the different heating medium, heating temperature and cooling method, each category can be divided into several different heat treatment processes. The same metal with different heat treatment process can obtain different microstructure and different properties.
Steel is the most widely used metal in industry, and the microstructure of steel is also the most complex. Therefore, there are many kinds of heat treatment processes for steel.
Integral heat treatment is a metal heat treatment process that heats the workpiece as a whole and then cools it at a proper speed to change its overall mechanical properties. There are four basic processes of heat treatment of iron and steel: annealing, normalizing, quenching and tempering.
Annealing is to heat the workpiece to the appropriate temperature, adopt different holding time according to the material and size of the workpiece, and then cool it slowly. The purpose is to make the internal structure of the metal reach or close to the equilibrium state, and obtain good process performance and performance. Computer gong processing, Dongguan computer Gong processing, Shenzhen computer gong processing, mechanical parts processing, Guangzhou computer gong processing
Or to prepare for further quenching. Normalizing is to heat the workpiece to a suitable temperature and then cool it in air. The effect of normalizing is similar to that of annealing, but the microstructure is finer. It is often used to improve the cutting performance of low-carbon materials, and sometimes used as the final heat treatment for some parts with low requirements.
Quenching is the rapid cooling of the workpiece in water, oil or other inorganic salt, organic water solution and other quenching media after heating and holding. After quenching, the steel parts become hard but brittle at the same time. In order to reduce the brittleness of steel parts, the quenched steel parts are kept at a proper temperature higher than room temperature but lower than 650 ℃ for a long time, and then cooled. This process is called tempering. Annealing, normalizing, quenching and tempering are the “four fires” in the whole heat treatment. Quenching and tempering are closely related and often used together.
With the different heating temperature and cooling methods, different heat treatment processes have evolved. In order to obtain certain strength and toughness, quenching and high temperature tempering process is called quenching and tempering. Computer gong processing | Dongguan computer gong processing | Shenzhen computer gong processing | mechanical parts processing | Guangzhou computer gong processing
Some alloys are quenched to form supersaturated solid solutions, which are kept at room temperature or a little higher temperature for a long time to improve the hardness, strength or electrical magnetism of the alloys.
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