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
Foundry (Ingot / Re-melt Furnace)
Touchstone’s Foundry consists of a 50KW, solid-state induction power supply which currently powers a graphite crucible for melting up to 40 lb of aluminum and/or similar volumes of other non-ferrous alloys. The primary purpose of this facility is to produce small amounts of experimental alloys. The system can be expanded to allow melting and casting of approximately 120-lb heats of ferrous based materials.