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HEAT TREATMENT INDUSTRY
MOST COMMON METALLOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS IN HEAT TREATMENT
Heat treatment is a process that uses controlled heating and cooling to modify the crystalline structure of metals and metal alloys. Depending on the material and treatment process, heat treating can provide numerous benefits, including enhanced hardness, increased temperature resistance, greater ductility, and improved material strength. Heat treatments are a critical aspect of metal fabrication processes, as they allow the materials to gain desirable physical and mechanical properties without altering the shape of the product. Common types of heat treating methods include annealing, hardening, quenching, and stress relieving, each of which has its own unique process to produce different results.
FUNDAMENTALS OF METALLOGRAPHIC PREPARATION OF HEAT TREATED SAMPLES
The main inspection areas are samples cross section edges especially surface hardened samples. Hardness value of samples are higher than routine samples. Hardness testing may be required during the sample preparation. High magnification values (500x, 1000x etc) are necessary for a lot of details especially for fine grains, thin hardness surfaces, nitration, decarburization and carbonization layers, martensite, bainite and pearlite structure. As a result, prepared samples have to include good edge sharpness, planarity and parallelism. Methods and consumables for all metallographic steps are determine factor for this level.
PRODUCT RANGE
Metkon offers a full range of equipment to deliver repeatable and reproducible quality of test results. The company’s product range includes cutting series, mounting series, grinding & polishing series, hardness testing, and microscopy. Each series is designed to meet the specific needs of different applications and industries. Metkon’s cutting series includes abrasive cutting machines and precision cutting machines. The mounting series includes hot mounting presses and cold mounting presses. The grinding & polishing series includes planar grinding machines, advanced grinding & polishing machines, electrolytic preparation machines, portable metallography machines, and modular grinding & polishing machines. The hardness testing series includes Vickers hardness testing machines and Rockwell hardness testing machines. The microscopy series includes upright microscopes, inverted microscopes, polarizing microscopes, and stereo microscopes.
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