Thermal Stress Effect On Heat Treatment Baskets
Quenching is a process I which metal components are heated below the melting temperature and suddenly cooled in water, due to heating and sudden cooling the molecular structure will be changed, as the molecular structure changes there will be an increase in load with standing capacity etc. Not only quenching, also process like heat treatment of components are done in industries which manufacture gears as shown in Fig: 1 Industries uses this process for strengthening the product, we uses different heat treatment basket for small components for batch process as shown in Fig: 2. Different designs of baskets are used for different industry, when the components are heat treated then the baskets are also heated, upon repeated heating and cooling of the basket the life of the basket will decrease due to that there will be more scrap or rework on basket, which is an loss to the company, also there can be chance of shape change due to the internal thermal stress produced in the basket. So...