Steel Heat Treatment: Equipment and Process Design covers the basic principles of heat treatment and the equipment used in modern industrial settings. It offers detailed coverage of induction heat treatment, important types of furnaces, heat transfer, cooling processes, modeling, computation, power supplies, laser treatments, residual stress and loading, microstructural analysis, and quality control. The book features thoroughly updated and new information, most notably in the chapters on vacuum heat processing, designing quench processes, laser hardening, and metallurgical property testing.

One of two self-contained volumes belonging to the newly revised and expanded Steel Heat Treatment Handbook, Second Edition, this book examines the behavior and processes involved in modern steel heat treatment applications. Steel Heat Treatment: Metallurgy and Technologies ensures up-to-date and thorough discussions of how specific heat treatment processes and different alloy elements affect the structure and properties of steel alloys. The book includes entirely new chapters on the classification and mechanisms of steel transformation, distortion of heat-treated components, and the...