What is the Heat Treatment Process?
The heat treatment process generally includes three processes: heating, heat preservation, and cooling. Due to different processes, it is divided into quenching, tempering, normalizing, annealing, etc. What is Quenching? The quenching of steel is to heat the steel to a temperature above the critical temperature Ac3 (hypo-eutectoid steel) or Ac1 (hyper-eutectoid steel) and keep it for…