This article was updated April 26, 2023. It was originally published Oct. 12, 2018. Heat treatments let engineers and metallurgists tailor the properties of metal parts so that they are a better fit ...

Used variously to soften, relieve internal stresses, improve machinability and to develop particular mechanical and physical properties. In special silicon steels used for transformer laminations ...

Steels owe their dominance of the field of engineering materials to their ability to respond to heat treatment and provide appropriate properties at economic cost on a production scale. The consistent ...