THE autumn meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute was to have taken place in Turin, but unfortunate circumstances rendered this impossible. None the less, a series of important papers by Italian ...

The role of molybdenum and its substitute elements in carburized layer has been examined. Among substitute elements, chromium and manganese are effective to raise case hardenability. Chromium is also ...

A 4-step heat treatment for hardening case-carburized steels has been developed and is here described and compared with conventional hardening. In step 1 of this new method, steel is case carburized ...

IN a paper read to the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie National, MM. Guillet and Bernard discuss the various methods employed when it is desired to case-harden steel objects in certain parts ...

This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...