Fixture hardening – also known as press hardening – is playing an increasingly important role as a manufacturing process, particularly in the automotive industry and for lightweight transmission components. However, these tend to become more warped during heat treatment and hardening.
In a recent technical article, our Dr. Stefan Knauf, Head of Research at EMA Indutec, and his co-authors Roger Jenne (also EMA Indutec) and Dr. Klaus Buchner (AICHELIN Holding) take a closer look at the control of distortion during induction fixture hardening.
This technical article is part of the current February issue of the “HTM Journal of Heat Treatment and Materials” (Volume 77, Issue 1), the official organ of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Wärmebehandlung und Werkstofftechnik e. V. (AWT). The technical article is available for download on the publisher’s website.