Improving Fatigue Performance of Aluminum Alloy Forgings using Rapid Infrared Thermal Processing


Frank F. Kraft, Gowreesan Vamadevan and Devon Poling, Mechanical Engineering Department, Ohio University, Rob Mayer, The Queen City Forging Company. Initial laboratory trials indicated that applying rapid IR superheating to the solutionizing cycle can reduce heat-treating cycle times by as much as 75% with a resulting decrease in energy consumption.

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