METHODOLOGY TO EVALUATE OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS PARAMETER OF GAS CARBURIZING CHAMBER
Keywords:
Gas carburizing chamber, taguchi method, performance parameter, orthogonal array, heat treatment, mechanical propertiesAbstract
Heat treatment is a controlled method for heating and cooling toachieve certain mechanical properties, such as
hardness, strength, flexibility, and the reduction of residual stresses.However, we are focusing on hardness. In heat treatment
process temperature is controlled over heating cycle. The result obtained makes it possible for the heat treatment of both
ferrous and non-ferrous metals and their alloy in order to alter their microstructures and enhance their properties. Heat
treatment may be defined as heating and cooling operations applied to metal and alloys in solid state so as to obtain the
desire property. Heat treatment by using gas carburizing chamber is the deposition of carbon on a work material by control
heating and cooling of a material to achievecertain mechanical properties. The following operating parameters are furnace
temperature, soaking time and quenching time were takenfrom optimization of taguchi technique and design of experiment,
by using gas carburizing chamber certain properties like hardness can be increase.
