Heat treatment is an essential technique for influencing workpiece characteristics. Several industries focus on reliable part design to avoid breaking parts, e.g. by decreasing material weight and ...

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Induction hardening provides excellent hardness distribution with minimal deformations, and also offers significant benefits over conventional techniques. However, induction hardening also places high ...

What do gears, bearings, and shafts have in common? For one thing, they're often made out of steel. For another, they're subject to a failure mode known as rolling contact fatigue. Rolling contact ...

It wasn’t long after humans discovered metals that they also discovered ways to apply heat to them to change their properties, such as making the metal stronger or more flexible. Here are some concise ...

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The best tube fittings balance hardness, strength, and corrosion resistance. Stainless-steel compression tube fittings make it easy to install and maintain measurement and control instruments used in ...