HEAT TREAMENT OF STEEL

Heat Treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of metals to alter their physical and mechanical properties without changing the product shape. Heat treatment is sometimes done inadvertently due to manufacturing processes that either heat or cool the metal such as welding or forming.

HEAT TREATMENT PROCESS OF STEEL

ANNEALING QUENCHING TEMPERING

STEEL ALLOYS
Steel alloys are basically carbon steel alloyed with additional elements such as molybdenum, copper, nickel, nitrogen, selenium, tantalum, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, boron, chromium, and cobalt. These alloys provide different physical properties. If you have a particular application, demanding specific performance requirements in terms of cost, weight, abrasion, brittleness, strength, elasticity, thermal conductivity, temperature expansion, dimensional stability, and toughness, then chances are that there is a particular alloy that meets your needs.

STAINLESS STEEL
Stainless steels resistance to corrosion and staining, low maintenance and familiar lustre make it an ideal material for many applications. There are over 150 grades of stainless steel, of which fifteen are most commonly used. The alloy is milled into coils, sheets, plates, bars, wire, and tubing to be used in cookware, cutlery, hardware, surgical instruments, major appliances, industrial equipment (for example, in sugar refineries) and as an automotive and aerospace structural alloy and construction material in large buildings. Storage tanks and tankers used to transport orange juice and other food are often made of stainless steel, because of its corrosion resistance and antibacterial properties.

CORROSION OF IRON AND STEEL

Iron exposed to moist air or oxygenated water are corroded, leaving a red encrustation of iron oxide on the surface. Progressive rusting is a major source of failure of unprotected structural materials. It is aggravated by bad design which leaves moisture traps in the structure. Rust may pit small holes in a surface, or uniformly progress over its area. It may attack joints and crevices. Despite their universal vulnerability to penetration, iron and steel materials are insufficiently protected, both in manufacture and in maintenance

A corrosive environment of iron or steel only requires the presence of water together with either a dissolved acid gas or oxygen, or in some cases just dissolved salts.