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“Heat treating has long been an art, and like art, it has not been fully appreciated by the masses,” said Joe Warchol, V.P. Technical for Houghton International, a founding member of the CHTE (Center for Heat Treating Excellence). “The CHTE will try to turn this ‘art’ into more of a science, which will hopefully result in more widespread acceptance and appreciation for the benefits and applications for heat treating in industry today. By developing more accurate heat treating methods, the process will be more predictable.”
Heat treating is an art that relies to a large degree on science, not unlike any other art. Heat treating strives to become “more scientific“, but it will never become pure science, due to it’s nature as an art. Heat treating is simply a means to manipulate and predict the properties of steel, but will never be 100% predictable due to the nature of it.
As an art, heat treating requires skill, experience, experimentation, imagination, creativity, intuition and know how. This part will not change and is important to understand.
Heat treating is an art that relies to a large degree on science, not unlike any other art. Heat treating strives to become “more scientific“, but it will never become pure science, due to it’s nature as an art. Heat treating is simply a means to manipulate and predict the properties of steel, but will never be 100% predictable due to the nature of it.
As an art, heat treating requires skill, experience, experimentation, imagination, creativity, intuition and know how. This part will not change and is important to understand.
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