precipitation-hardening treatment

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• Precipitation hardening — Precipitation hardening, also called age hardening, is a heat treatment technique used to increase the yield strength of malleable materials, including most structural alloys of aluminium, magnesium, nickel and titanium, and some stainless steels …   Wikipedia

• precipitation hardening — noun : the process of hardening an alloy by a heat treatment or aging method that causes a constituent to precipitate from solid solution …   Useful english dictionary

• hardening — increasing the hardness of steel by heat treatment. This normally implies heating the steel to a required temperature and quenching in a suitable medium, e.g., oil or water. age hardening case hardening cyanide hardening flame hardening induction …   Mechanics glossary

• Hardening (metallurgy) — In metallurgy, hardening describes techniques to increase the hardness of a material. There are five main hardening mechanisms: * Hall Petch hardening, a hardening that result due to a decrease in grain size. * Cold working, also called strain… …   Wikipedia

• Heat treatment — is a method used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass. Heat treatment… …   Wikipedia

• Cryogenic hardening — is a cryogenic heat treating process where the material is cooled to approximately −185 °C (−301 °F), usually using liquid nitrogen. It can have a profound effect on the mechanical properties of certain steels, provided their composition and …   Wikipedia

• metallurgy — metallurgic, metallurgical, adj. metallurgically, adv. metallurgist /met l err jist/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jist/, n. /met l err jee/ or, esp. Brit., /meuh tal euhr jee/, n. 1. the technique or science of working or heating metals so as… …   Universalium

• Strengthening mechanisms of materials — Methods have been devised to modify the yield strength, ductility, and toughness of both crystalline and amorphous materials. These strengthening mechanisms give engineers the ability to tailor the mechanical properties of materials to suit a… …   Wikipedia

• steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …   Universalium

• Plasma nitriding — or ion nitriding (sometimes also called plasma ion nitriding) or glow discharge nitriding, is an industrial surface hardening treatment for metallic materials.DescriptionA plasma is the fourth state of matter, the other three being solid, liquid… …   Wikipedia

• Hiduminium — Six cylinder, 5 litre, all Hiduminium engine for the Armstrong Siddeley Special The Hiduminium or R.R. alloys are a series of high strength, high temperature aluminium alloys, developed for aircraft use by Rolls Royce befo …   Wikipedia