Special issue published: "Quenching and Control of Distortion"

International Journal of Microstructure and Materials Properties 11(3/4) 2016

• Relationship between the quench delay time and tensile properties for various section thicknesses of AA 7075 Al alloy
• Influence of cooling medium and cooling conditions on hardness and distortions after steel quenching
• Investigation of the effects of transverse inertia on SHPB experiments
• Heat transfer and quench performance of aqueous CuO nanofluids during immersion quenching
• Performance assessment of vegetable oil and mineral oil blends during heat treatment of medium carbon steel
• Inverse quench-hardening phenomena in steels and their origin
• Determination of heat transfer coefficients for complex spray cooling arrangements
• Sound emission phenomena analysis at boundary layer during steel quenching
• Flow conditioning in heat treatment gas quenching
• Liquid quenchant database: determination of heat transfer coefficient during quenching
• Estimation of temporospatial boundary conditions using a particle swarm optimisation technique
• Different ways of monitoring the main quenching parameters will ensure the quality of heat treatment process