This chapter presented four processing-type heat treatments whose primary objective is to soften, weaken, enhance ductility, or promote machinability. Consider each of the following processes as they are applied to steels:
a. Full annealing
b. Normalizing
c. Process annealing
d. Spheriodizing
Provide information relating to
1. A basic description of how the process works and what its primary objectives are
2. Typical materials on which the process is performed
3. Type of equipment used
4. Typical times, temperatures, and atmospheres required
5. Recommended rates of heating and cooling
6. Typical properties achieved