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VACUUM/SURFACE TREATING
Tips for Controlled-Atmosphere Carburizing Furnace Maintenance
Bill Mayer – Editor
In April 2020, Reed Miller interviewed Mike McConkey, a dedicated customer-service engineer for Surface Combustion. McConkey, an expert on controlled-atmosphere furnace operation, maintenance and safety, answered some frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the technology and offered some maintenance tips. This article is a condensed and edited version of that interview.
HEAT & CORROSION RESISTANT MATERIALS/COMPOSITES
Titanic Loss of Vessel (Part 1)
David Pye – Pye Metallurgical International Consulting
It is just short of 110 years since the tragic sinking of the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic. During construction, some 2,000 hull plates were used along with approximately 3 million rivets to join the hull plates together. The hull-plate steel was to have been produced to AISI 1018 analysis specification. However, it was reported after the vessel was located and during the investigation that analysis anomalies and contamination in the plate were present.
HEAT TREATING
Furnace Retrofits: A Before and After Story
Patrick Laskey – Onex Inc.; Erie, Pa.
As post-pandemic business gets back to normal, it may be time to update your furnace equipment, possibly through a retrofit. There are likely two areas of failure in an industrial furnace: the insulating refractory system or the combustion and controls system. This article includes two brief case studies: a controls and combustion system overhaul and a complete furnace retrofit. These practices give you the opportunity to update on best industry practices and maximize the return on your equipment investment.
SINTERING/ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Keeping Up with Additive Manufacturing
Genevieve Diesing – Contributing editor for Quality magazine
Additive-manufacturing (AM) production enables the creation of parts not possible with traditional technologies through new design concepts, new materials and new applications. However, there are still challenges.
COLUMNS
Editorial
The Best of What IH has to Offer
Industrial Heating has over 21 years of content currently available on our website – our archive dates back to May 2000, to be precise. The cool thing about this treasure trove of technical information is that we are able to track what visitors look at – including articles that were posted in the early 2000s. So what were the most-viewed articles (based on page views) on our website in 2021? Inquiring minds want to know.
Washington Watch
Decarbonization of Industry: Government-Style
The U.S. Department of Energy released a Request for Information (RFI) to the public on “Industrial Decarbonization Priorities” in January 2022. As part of President Biden’s whole of government approach to climate change, the department is exploring what technology developments and deployment would generate emissions reduction in the industrial sector to help reach the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
Technical Talk
Fracture Analysis: Is Brittle Behavior Bad?
One of most important technical issues that a fracture analyst must deal with is evaluating whether the crack was ductile or brittle. Here we are talking about visible characteristics revealed to the human eye, and we are strictly discussing structures with features that are readily viewed with the human eye.
Academic Pulse
Get to Know CHTE
The Center for Heat Treating Excellence (CHTE) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute was founded 20 years ago from the vision of the ASM Heat Treating Society’s (HTS) R&D committee. They wanted to provide a research home for the heat-treating industry to support their precompetitive research needs. CHTE is an industry-university collaboration to conduct industry-proposed and industry-specified research projects.
IHEA Profile
Bloom Engineering
Bloom Engineering has had quite a journey over the past 88 years. The company began as a small shop in Pittsburgh’s North Side in 1934 before moving to its current site in the South Hills of Pittsburgh in 1962.
DEPARTMENTS
Aftermarket/Classified Marketplace
Aftermarket:
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