Annealing Heat Treatment Procedure

The first method of the heat treatment process generally suits for low carbon steel and is mainly passed on cold rolled steel such as wire drawn steel etc. This method tends to improve the characteristics such as ductility and hardness which otherwise makes the process difficult.In the second method, the steel involves heating to about 30 to 50 degrees centigrade above a significant temperature of the material. The temperature is then holed for a specified time period and then inside a furnace the material is allowed to cool without any forced ways of cooling. This process can be applied to: castings made from high carbon and medium steels, hot worked sheets and forgings etc.The Stress Relief process can be used for large welded structures and castings. For this process of heat treatment, special large ovens are used which are huge enough to store the work piece in the right position in order to get maximum exposure to the heated air in the oven. Special gas fired conveyor furnaces are mainly used for high volume process annealing. Annealing is a heat treatment procedure by which we can make changes to a material by causing changes in its specific properties such as hardness and strength of the material. This process can be implied on the materials such as steel, silver, copper and brass and is performed by considerably heating the material for a specific time period and then it's allowed to cool. The machinability requirements of steel are different and thus, this process is used to enhance the properties of steel to meet the specific requirements. In case of steel, it is heated to 723 degrees Centigrade of temperature, after which it is allowed to cool.