RT journal article
T1 Steel heat treating: Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of a problem arising in the automotive industry
A1 Díaz Moreno, José Manuel
A1 García Vázquez, Concepción
A1 González Montesinos, María Teresa
A1 Ortegón Gallego, Francisco
A1 Viglialoro, Giuseppe
A2 Matemáticas
K1 Steel hardening
K1 Phase transitions
K1 Potential Maxwell equations
K1 Numerical Simulations
K1 Finite Element Methods
AB We describe a mathematical model for the industrial heating and cooling processes of a steel workpiece representing the steering rack of an automobile. The goal of steel heat treating is to provide a hardened surface on critical parts of the workpiece while keeping the rest soft and ductile in order to reduce fatigue. The high hardness is due to the phase transformation of steel accompanying the rapid cooling. This work takes into account both heating-cooling stage and viscoplastic model. Once the general mathematical formulation is derived, we can perform some numerical simulations.
PB ASTES Publishers
SN 2415-6698
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36477
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/36477
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 11-nov-2026