TRANSFORMATION HARDENING. Heat treatment comprising austenitization followed by cooling under conditions such that the austenite transforms more or less completely into martensite and possibly into bainite.
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SLACK QUENCHING. The incomplete hardening of steel due to quenching from the austenitizing temperature at a rate slower than the critical cooling rate […]
SOAKING. Prolonged holding at a selected temperature to effect homogenization of structure or composition.
SUBCRITICAL ANNEALING. A process anneal performed on ferrous alloys at a temperature below Ac1.
SHEAR. (1) That type of force that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of the same body to slide relative to […]