Liquid Quenchant Database

摘要

Originating from discussions held in Rio de Janeiro in July 2010 and in Glasgow 2011, a proposal was made to International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering (IFHTSE) that an international collaborative project should be launched with the objective of generating a comparative database of the cooling intensities of liquid quenchants for use industrially as a selection tool in relation to specific materials, conditions, and engineering requirements. At present, there is no universally recognized method or procedure for the measurement, recording and comparison of relative cooling intensities of different quenchants for components of complex geometry. A globally usable database is therefore required which covers a range of selected quenchants acting under specified conditions.