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- Uses low cost LH steels
- Eliminate expensive alloy elements (Ni, Mo, Cr, V)
- Eliminate carburizing and improves capability of conventional induction hardening
- Improve cycle times 1-5 minutes vs 8-20+ hours for conventional carburizing process
- Lean and green process allowing individual part traceability
Superior Metallurgy / Improved Durability
- Produces fine-grain to ultra-fine grain martensitic structures within the surface hardened layer
- Improves surface metallurgy by eliminating grain boundary oxidation or no martensitic surface layer associated with gas carburizing
- Heat treated core structure resulting in a desired combination of core ductility and strength.
- Develops high magnitude of the useful compressive surface residual stresses (600-1000 MPa) without stress shot peening
- Significantly improved static and dynamic properties of processed parts
Simple, Repeatable, and Robust Process
- Parts are through heated or partially heated and then controlled water quenched
- Do not sensitive to geometry change during heat treatment operation vs conventional process
- Hardened depth is controlled by the steels hardenability
- Low steel hardenability allows the formation of well-defined case depth and pattern when hardening complex-geometry parts
- Improves overall repeatability and robustness and reduces process sensitivity
- Single piece flow and short cycle times allow easy integration of heat treatment operation within lean