Intro: Whenever someone is talking about induction heating, reference is often made to the phenomenon of skin effect.1 Skin effect is considered a fun- damental property of induction heating, representing a nonuniform distribution of an alternating current within…

Intro: Most existing annealing systems utilize multi-turn pancake style coils and are powered by large, relatively inefficient vacuum tube power supplies. The output is often inconsistent and constant adjustments are needed to maintain product quality. The IHM se…

Intro: Brazing is the most reliable method of joining diamond to metals. It is also the most widely used and one of the areas where processes are held as trade secrets in most companies. This paper attempts to provide a general overview of brazing diamonds, and a…

Intro: In recent years, gear manufacturers have gained additional knowledge about how technology can be used to produce quality parts. The application of this knowledge has resulted in gears that are quieter, lighter, and lower cost, and have an increased load-ca…

Intro: In the Ail-Union Scientific-Research Tube Institutes industrial induction electric furnaces heated to 2000-2300C, cylindrical billets of high-melting alloys are placed on refractory supports. To select materials for the supports which do not react with mol…

Intro: Titanium and its alloys present high interests for technological applications due to their high resistance corrosion, mechanical properties and biocompatibility [1-5]. For example, titanium is largely used as orthopedic metallic implant [6]. In addition, T…

Intro: Basics of Metal-to-Plastic BondingSince steel, brass and aluminum are the materials of choice for metal inserts for plastic bonding, let us look at the relative merits of each material and see how each characteristic effects the ability of the material to …

Intro: There are three basic induction approaches to heat RCS billets: static, progressive and oscillating heating. The most popular of these is the progressive multi-stage horizontal heating system, in which billets are moved through a single or multi-coil horiz…

Intro: Magnetic flux concentrators (also called flux intensifiers, diverters, or controllers) are made from high- permeability, low-power-loss materials. They are routinely used in induction heat treating applications (Fig. 1) in a manner similar to that of mag- …

Intro: Brazing especially vacuum brazing is highly sophisticated and specialized joining process as compared to welding and other conventional methods of joining. The brazing process is deployed when component joining becomes difficult by using the conventional m…