Heat treatments are designed to improve the strength, flexibility, durability and hardness of metal products without actually changing their shape. Annealing is an umbrella term for one type of this heat treatment, which reduces hardness, relieves internal stresses and improves ductility. What is annealing? The process of annealing uses thermodynamics to achieve its goals. By […]
Induction hardening is a type of heat treating method in which you selectively and rapidly harden a metal surface. In the process, you place a copper coil that carries an alternating current near the part, but not directly touching it. Heat is generated close to the surface with eddy current and hysteresis losses. Then, a […]
Annealing is a type of heat treatment in which an alloy gets heated up and held at a particular temperature, then gets cooled down in a controlled manner. The process allows for internal stresses in the alloy to be relieved, softens the material and creates a chemical homogenization and transformation of the grain structure of […]
The one constant in heat treatment in Gastonia, NC is the use of heat to forge a bond. While some methods of heat treatment don’t require temperatures as high as traditional welding, heat is still present in the process (if only as a byproduct). Therefore, along with heat comes another constant of heat treatment: the […]
When most people think of joining two pieces of metal, their minds inevitably turn to welding. They picture a person in a thick, iron mask, white-hot blowtorch in hand, melting and merging until two separate pieces of metal into a cohesive whole. Though useful in numerous industrial and commercial applications, welding isn’t always the right […]