Numerical simulation of induction hardening of steel
ISSN: 0332-1649
Article publication date: 1 September 1999
Abstract
We discuss a model that is capable of describing the process of induction hardening of steel: induction heating – heat transfer – solid‐solid phase transitions in steel. It consists of a reduced system of Maxwell’s equations, the heat transfer eqaution and a system of ordinary differential equations for the volume fractions of the occuring phases. The model is applied to simulate surface heat treatments, which play an important role in the manufacturing of steel. The numerical methods are implemented with tools from pdelib, a collection of modular algorithms. We present numerical simulations of surface hardening applied to the steel 42 CrMo 4.
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Citation
Fuhrmann, J., Hömberg, D. and Uhle, M. (1999), "Numerical simulation of induction hardening of steel", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 18 No. 3, pp. 482-493. https://doi.org/10.1108/03321649910275161
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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