Metal treatment – Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical... – Chemical-heat removing or burning of metal
Patent
1987-11-09
1989-06-06
Brody, Christopher W.
Metal treatment
Process of modifying or maintaining internal physical...
Chemical-heat removing or burning of metal
148154, C21D 142
Patent
active
048368660
ABSTRACT:
The outer surface of an elongated metal component such as a bar is rapidly heated by an induction coil and is thereafter cooled by a quenching spray while being subjected to tensile forces so high that the center portion of the bar approaches yield causing the bar to elongate slightly. The tension on the bar is released thereby obtaining high residual compressive surface stresses in the cooled outer layers of the bar which define an annulus and which shortens the bar slightly until compressive stresses in the surface layers equal the tensile stresses acting on the central sections of the bar thereby greatly improving the fatigue life of the bar.
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Brody Christopher W.
FMC Corporation
Megley R. B.
Moore A. J.
Stanley H. M.
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