Heating and Cooling of Stock

Gowreesan Vamadevan and Frank Kraft, Ohio University, Puja Kadolkar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Howard Mayer, The Queen City Forging Co.

Dr.Valery Rudnev, FASM, Director, Science and Technology

Jun Wang, North Carolina State University, FIERF Funded Project, Presented at 2011 Forging Industry Technical Conference.

To attain substantial improvement in forging mechanical properties through infrared heating of the billet/perform prior to forging.

Gary Doyon, Inductotherm Group, Rancocas, NJ, Doug Brown, Valery Rudnev, Inductoheat Inc., Madison Heights, MI and Chester J. Van Tyne, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, Forge, April 2010.

Final Project Report: "Development of the Hybrid Rapid Infrared Superheating Furnace for the Treatment of Aluminum Alloys". The main funding for this part of the program was supplied by Edison Materials Technology Center with additional funding for the testing of project samples at Ohio University being supplied by the Forging Industry Educational and Research Foundation (FIERF).

Valery I. Rudnev, FASM, Inductoheat Group, Heat Treating Progress, May/June 2008

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.

Induction heating can offer benefits to forgers in certain applications. Process and design requirements for suitable applications are examined, as are common types of induction heating configurations. Dr. Valery Rudnev, Dir., Science and Technology, Inductoheat Group, Forge, November 2006.

This project proved the capability of a new type of infrared die heater to uniformly heat forging dies to the desired temperature in 30 minutes instead of the standard 4 hours.

V. Rudnev, D. Brown, C.J. Van Tyne and K.D. Clarke, Technical Proceedings and World Forging Trends of the 19th International Forging Congress, FIA, Cleveland, OH, USA, (2008), pp. 71-82. Provided to FIA Members by Colorado School of Mines Advanced Steel Processing and Products Research Center.

Valery Rudnev, Inductotherm Group, Presented at 2011 Forging Industry Technical Conference.

Dr. Valery I. Rudnev, FASM, Inductoheat Group, Heat Treating Progress, January/February, 2009.

Dr. Valery I. Rudnev, Inductoheat Inc., Madison Heights, MI, Forge, July, 2008.

Professor Shahla Keyvan, University of Missouri Columbia. FIERF has funded Dr. Keyvan's work to apply vision-based sensor technologies used in the glass industry to improve burner control in gas fired forging furnaces. Tests are being conducted at Missouri Forge, Inc.

Final Project Report: FIERF funded study conducted by Dr. Shahla Keyvan to provide a temperature profile of a gas fired heat treat furnace at Missouri Forge resulting in a 7% reduction in gas consumption.

Valery Rudnev, Don Loveless, Walt Albert, Kurt Schweigert and Peter Dickson, Inductoheat Inc., Madison Heights, MI, Forging May/June 1999