Heat Treatment

Both Thermo-Calc and DICTRA are widely used within the area of Heat Treatment.

Some example of calculations are:

Phase transformations at various temperatures.
Homogenization of alloys.
Carburising and decarburising of steels.
Coarsening of precipitates.
Carbide dissolution during austenitization of steels.
Oxide layer formation on steel.

Webinar:

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Optimizing heat treating processes and materials development through modeling and simuation. Investigate. Analyze. Predict.

Heat treating can best be defined as "the controlled application of time, temperature and atmosphere to produce a predictable change in the nternal structure (i.e. the microstructure) of a material." This article describes how computational thermodynamics and kinetics can assist the metallurgist in making such predictions. Practical Applications of Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics to Heat Treatment