Rapid heat treatment process using microwaves- A novel approach

6^th International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Science and Engineering

September 12-14, 2016 Atlanta, USA

Prasanna Venkatesh P R and Swaminathan G

Sri Sairam Engineering College, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Material Sci Eng

Abstract :

Heat treatment is an essential process for steels especially to enhance the properties of tools. In conventional heat treatment process, the heat transfer through the material is normally by conduction and it results longer soaking time for complete austenitization. Present study deals with reducing the time consumption by rapid heating of steels using microwaves. In this paper, tungsten based high speed steel (T-1) and high carbon chromium steels (D-2) were taken as a work piece and heat treatment was done on it using both conventional and Microwave furnace in a protective environment. Hardness tests were conducted using Micro Vicker Hardness tester and equivalent Rockwell hardness values were noted. The result shows that the time taken and power consumption for microwave heating is very less on comparing with conventional heating without affecting the mechanical property.

Biography :

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