Week - 1 |
Definition of heat treatment, technological importance of heat treatments and their applications in industry. |
Week - 2 |
Classification of heat treatments, definition of heat treatment methods used in applications and their purposes. |
Week - 3 |
Softening annealing, Normalization (normalizing annealing) application principles and purposes. |
Week - 4 |
Application principles and purposes of stress relieving annealing, spheroidizing annealing and recrystallization annealing. |
Week - 5 |
Time Temperature Conversion Diagrams. |
Week - 6 |
Quenching of iron alloys, martensitic transformation, definition of the hardenability concept, technological importance and effects of alloying elements. |
Week - 7 |
Heating and cooling media used in heat treatment, heat treatment technologies of steels. |
Week - 8 |
Midterm Exam Week |
Week - 9 |
Principles and purposes of tempering application. |
Week - 10 |
Intermittent quenching methods, martempering, austempering, application principles and purposes. |
Week - 11 |
Types of tool steels and expectations, heat treatment of tool steels. |
Week - 12 |
Surface treatments applied to steels, Carburizing, Nitriding, Boriding, nickel, chrome plating etc. Flame hardening and Induction hardening etc. |
Week - 13 |
Hardenability, determination of hardenability and Jominy test. |
Week - 14 |
Errors encountered in heat treatments and precautions to be taken. |