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Heat Treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of metals to alter their physical and mechanical properties without changing the product shape. Heat treatment is sometimes done inadvertently due to manufacturing processes that either heat or cool the metal such as welding or forming. Heat Treatment is often associated with increasing the strength of material, but it can also be used to alter certain manufacturability objectives such as improve machining, improve formability, restore ductility after a cold working operation. Thus it is a very enabling manufacturing process that can not only help other manufacturing process, but can also improve product performance by increasing strength or other desirable characteristics.

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The term annealing,until and unless specified,means full annealing.It consists of heating steel to austenitic region,followed by slow cooling.Steel is heated to about 30 to 50 degree above the upper ...

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Annealing,in general,involves heating to predetermined temperature,holding at this temperature,and finally cooling at a very slow rate.The temperature,to which steel is heated,and the holding time ...

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