Heat Treating Processes and Applications Quiz

Heat treating is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material.

The most common application of heat treatment is metallurgical. It is also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass.

Heat treatment techniques include annealing, case hardening, precipitation strengthening, tempering, carburizing, normalizing and quenching.

<p>Heat treatment applies only to processes where the heating and cooling are done for the specific purpose of altering properties intentionally.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Metallic materials consist of a microstructure of small crystals called grains.</p> Signup and view all the answers