Heat Treatment

Heat-Treating, Master Control Manual is focused on doing heat-treating by ASM, SME and AISI standards for all levels of education. It is written in non-metallurgical terms. This book will serve as a reference manual for a lifetime.

This manual will zero in on the popular tool steels, alloy steels, heat-treatable stainless, plus it will offer information on low-carbon case hardening. Overall this manual is centered on sound thermal treatments, which includes the heat-treatment, and cryogenic thermal processing of metals. It is written for toolmakers, engineers, heat-treaters, procurement, management personnel and anyone who is involved in the day to day, hands-on hardening, or thermal treatment of metals. This book also wants to help those who desire to get a thorough understanding of what goes on in the process of heat-treating. But the most important point the author wants to convey is that it is vital that the user is focused more on procuring great grain structure than simply hardness.