STRESS EQUALIZING. A low-temperature heat treatment used to balance stresses in cold-worked material without an appreciable decrease in the mechanical strength produced by cold working.
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SEVERITY OF QUENCH. Ability of quenching medium to extract heat from a hot steel workpiece; expressed in terms of the H value.
TRANSFORMATION HARDENING. Heat treatment comprising austenitization followed by cooling under conditions such that the austenite transforms more or less completely into martensite and […]
VACUUM ANNEALING. Annealing carried out at sub-atmospheric pressure.
STRAIN HARDENING. An increase in hardness and strength caused by plastic deformation at temperatures below the recrystallization range.