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340 Technology Fundamental Principles of Heat-Treating Steels by Richard D. Sisson, Jr. and Daniel H. Herring photo provided by Chen Nan Iron Wire The critical heat-treating process iron can only contain 0.022 wt% C. This eat-treating is a process that p ar am et er s ar e t i m e , t e m p er at u r e , 100-fold difference in carbon solubility is critical to the fabrication at m o sp h er e , an d c o o l i n g r at e s . I n in the two iron crystal structures is also Hof st eel f a st en er s . It i s thi s article the fundamental phy sical necessary for the heat treatment of steel. a n e c e s sar y p r oc e s s i n metallurgy of steels will be presented order to achieve the mechanical for each step in this important process. The Iron - Carbon phase diagram properties. Heat-treating is typically Future articles will talk about each aspect i s pr e sent ed in Fig ure 1. Som e of c o n d u c t e d a f t e r t h e f o r m i n g of the heat treatment operation. the key features of the phase diagram processes and