Normalizing Carbon & Low Alloy Steel

“Accucam is proud to offer this white paper, and to offer solutions to our customers based on a foundation of industry knowledge and experience. We look forward to working with you on your next project. The success of our customers product is our goal!”
– Jay McNaughton, President

“We hope you find this a useful and informative tech-note to help shed some light on the often misunderstood ‘art’ of heat treatment. When you partner with Accucam for your development and production needs, you can be assured that we will apply the best of our technology and manufacturing know-how to provide a quality product at the lowest cost for your application.”
– Clayton Sloss, Director of Engineering

The behaviour of the steel during heat treatment, and the resulting structure and properties, is dependent upon the initial microstructure, the alloy chemistry and the heat treatment schedule.

If there is significant variability in chemistry and structure throughout the casting, on both macro and micro/local scales, the resulting properties achieved in the steel through heat treatment will vary with location. This can also result in additional transformational residual stresses which can promote cracking.

To read more, please fill in the form below and read through Chapter 1: Behaviour of Heat-Treated Steel, Chapter 2: Objectives of Normalizing, Chapter 3: Controlling thee Structure and Property and Chapter 4: Decarburization in the Furnace.