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 WMT&R
maintains
capabilities at both our USA
and
UK
laboratories to heat treat material to various conditions onsite. Our
facilities can handle a wide variety of thermo-mechanical processing. For
ferrous alloys, our radiant furnaces and environmental chambers can accomplish
normalizing, hardening, and tempering up to +2700° F and cryogenic treatments
down to -320° F. For non-ferrous alloys, our forced convection furnaces can
accomplish solutioning, annealing, and artificial aging up to +1200° F.
Furnaces are surveyed in accordance with
AMS 2750 using the nine standard thermocouple locations defined therein.
Readings from those nine thermocouple locations are maintained for every heat
treat batch, enabling a continuous monitor of furnace performance. All furnaces
are equipped with an over-temperature sensor to ensure quality processing.
Furnace controllers include parameters for regulating the heating and cooling
rates and are capable of following temperature-time programs composed of sixteen
to twenty discrete points.
To safeguard against material being
exposed to products of combustion, all heat treating furnaces at WMT&R
are heated by electrical elements. Confidence of electronic data acquisition is
accomplished by linking all furnaces using computer
software developed by WMT&R. Data can be captured either in a tabular format or
in a temperature vs. time plot reporting the soak time, average temperature, and
standard deviation of each of any 120 thermocouples available for temperature
monitoring.
The Heat Treat Department has
conducted production-scale processing of finished parts including aluminum
castings and extrusions. Our staff has treated many alloys, including 4340
Steel, Stainless Steels, A2 Tool Steel, Inconel 718, Aluminum 7050, and Aluminum
Lithium 2195. We are eminently experienced in conducting processes in accordance
with specifications from ASTM, AMS, ASME, GE, military and government
departments. Additionally, we have the flexibility and experience necessary to
model production processing on a smaller scale providing data on experimental
batches, facilitating processing decisions.
Customized forced convection bottom-drop furnace with
a maximum temperature of 1200° F and the ability to quench 1200 lbs. of material
into either of its two quench tanks in under ten seconds!
20+ labs and 4 production heat treating furnaces
ensure your job won’t have to wait for open capacity.
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