Does anyone know of Maraging as a way of hardening steels? Our trainee at work has been given it as a homework, I have never heard of it before.
[Edited on 25/2/10 by Dingz]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maraging_steel
Thanks, he has found that but it doesn't give much info on the process apparently.
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Christ, as Aussies would say, "is he alright for socks and undies?" The Wikipedia entry looks quite good to me!
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"Maraging" is not something you can do to any steel to harden it. Maraging is a contraction of the words martensite and ageing (or
yanks' aging). It only works for certain special iron-nickel alloys, not your regular iron-carbon steels (all described in Wikipedia).
The bit titled "Heat treatment cycle" describes the process very well.
Cheers R
Many thanks for the reply Rachael, it's much clearer now.
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