×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Induction Harden 6150

Induction Harden 6150

Induction Harden 6150

(OP)
I know the conventional wisdom is that induction hardening of SAE 6150 is problematic due to insufficient austenitizing time available to fully dissolve the vanadium carbides. But, has anyone had any experience, good or bad with induction hardening this alloy?

RE: Induction Harden 6150

Alloys such as this one can have better IH response if you furnace pretreat prior to induction hardening. I pretreat 4340 for the same reason, to get everything in solution. I quench and temper but a normalize might work as well, depends on your core hardness requirements.

RE: Induction Harden 6150

Swall, in alloys like 1541v we have issues with temps not being high enough at the mill (well over 2000F needed at the rolling mill billet furnace)..  not sure if that helps or not.  the steel needs to be really hot to get that V into solution for higher hardness.

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources