New Technical Resource for Induction Heat Treating Professionals

The recently published ASM Handbook, Volume 4C is specifically devoted to the needs of Induction Heating and Heat Treating community worldwide. A long-awaited expansion of the ASM Handbook series, its topics are of major technological significance, including hardening, tempering, stress-relieving, brazing, normalizing, annealing, as well as heating prior to warm and hot working. World-recognized experts from leading universities, national research laboratories and industrial corporations from 10 countries contributed materials published in this volume, making it a truly international effort in unfolding modern induction technologies. The presentation will review the content of this handbook, emphasizing the following subjects: * Induction hardening of camshafts with almost undetectable distortion and the elimination of subsequent straightening operations. * Control of professional magnetic field exposure – International Standards and Regulations. * Metallurgical intricacies of induction hardening. * New generation of inverters for medium and high-frequency induction heat treating.