HEAT TREATMENT STUDIES
The following list provides an overview of Touchstone’s capabilities in heat treatment:
- Autoclave
- Continuous Annealing Furnace
- Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
- Cryogenic Thermal Treatment
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Foundry (Ingot / Re-Melt Furnace)
- Hot Microhardness Tester
- Mechanical Testing at Elevated and Cryogenic Temperatures
- Ovens
- Quartz Lamp Furnaces
- Resistance Furnaces
- SEM with Hot Stage
- Tube Furnaces
- Vacuum Evaporator
Controlled Atmosphere Furnaces
Eight Inconel inserts have been manufactured which slide into muffle furnaces capable of 1200 deg C heating. They are equipped with gas inlets, as well as sampling and thermocouple ports. Touchstone also has a controlled atmosphere furnace which allows for evacuation to a vacuum before purging with a controlled atmosphere.
Annealing, Nitriding, Carburizing, hydrogen embrittlement, and carbothermal reaction studies are among some of the areas of study for which this equipment is well suited.
Carbon/Carbon Composites can be processed in these furnaces.
The controlled atmosphere furnaces can be used for heat treatment performed in numerous atmospheres inlcuding hydrogen, nitrogen, argon, ammonia, carbon dioxide, helium and various other reducing and oxidizing atmospheres.