Contents -- Applied Energy -- How to Improve Inductor Life, Part 2 -- Optimizing Axle Scan Hardening Inductors -- Processing of Multi-Layer Materials by Induction Heating Gradient Effect -- Increasing Inductor Lifetime by Predicting Coil Copper Temperatures -- Heat Transfer Characteristics of Laminar Methane/Air Flame Impinging on a Flat Surface -- Controlling Induction Heating Magnetic Fields with Flux Field Concentrators -- Thermodynamic and Kinetic Aspects of Endothermic Carburizing Atmospheres with Natural Gas Enrichment -- Emerging Technology -- New Applications of EPM in Metal, Oxide and Semiconductor Processing -- An Attractive Materials Process: Exploring High Magnetic Field Processing for Developing Customized Microstructures with Enhanced Performance -- Heat Treating Atmosphere Activation -- Microwave Processing and Heat Treating of Metals -- Fluidized Bed: An Energy Efficient Heat Treating Technology for Cast Al Alloys -- Integrated Heat Treatment - System for Precise Die Hardening in Automotive Industries -- Effect of Post-Spray Heat Treatment on Mechanical Properties of Ni-TiC Composite Coatings Produced by Cold Gas Dynamic Spray -- Dr. George E. Totten International Symposium on Quenching & Cooling -- Microstructure and Property Predictions by Using a Heat-Treatment Planning System, CHT- q/ t -- Modeling of Microstructure Evolution during the Rapid Heating of Hypoeutectoid Steels -- Assessing Heat Treatment Distortion Sensitivity -- Optimal Spray Characteristics in the Air-Assisted Water Spray Cooling of a Downward- Facing Heated Surface -- Some New Approaches in the Field of Quenching Fundamentals -- Intensive Quenching to Reduce the Carburizing Cycle for Automotive Cross Production -- Applying CFD to Characterize Gear Response during Intensive Quenching Process -- Improving Gear Performance by Intensive Quench.

Historical Review of Residual Stress in Quenched Fe-Ni Alloy Cylinders and Explanation of Its Origin Using Computer Simulation -- Effect of Quenching on the Dimensional Stability of SAE 52100 Make Bearing Components -- George E. Totten, Ph.D, FASM: A Biographical Overview of His Life and a Brief Overview of His Impact on Global Quenching Technology -- The Contribution of Dr. George E. Totten to Unitize World Heat Treatment R & D, and Update State of the Quenching and Control of Distortion -- History of Quenching -- Effective Design of Heat Treat Processes Using Computer Simulations -- Using Wave Technology for Heat Treatment -- The Analysis of Gas Flow in the Wind Tunnel of High Pressure Gas Quenching Furnace -- Fluidized Bed Quenching Performance and Its Application for Heat Treating Aluminum Alloys -- Mathematical Model of the Microstructural Response of a Medium- Carbon, Low- Alloy Steel Quenched in a Fluidized Bed -- Processes & Applications -- The Nitrocarburizing of Plain Carbon Steel Automotive Components -- Optimization of Oxygen-free Heat Treating -- Statistical Process Control and Process Validation in Gas Carburizing of Gears -- Case Histories Involving Embrittlement of Steel -- A Probabilistic Modeling Approach for Industrial Carburizing Operation -- Heat Treatment of Cr-Mo Powder Metallurgy Steels for High Performance Applications -- Fatigue Studies and Characterisation of Induction Tempered Welded Steel Tubes -- Non-Contact Ultrasonic Treatment of Metals in a Magnetic Field -- Evaluation of Aging Response of Al-Cu-Mg-Si Based Cast Aluminum Alloy and its Effect on Tensile Property -- The Aging Behavior of AA7136 Wrought Aluminum Alloy -- Special Heat Treatment Practices for Aerospace Aluminum Alloys -- The Effect Of Aluminum On Isothermal Oxidation Resistance Of Austenitic Heat Resistant Steels.

Effect of Heat Treatment Cycle on the Mechanical Properties of Machinable Austempered Ductile Iron -- Tribology of Conformal Gears with Advanced Material Systems -- Effects of T6 Heat Treatment with Residual Heat of Casting on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of 319 Aluminium Alloy Castings -- Plasma Nitriding of AISI H13 Tool Steel with Different Microstructures -- Three Point Bending Behavior of Orthodontic Thermo- Active Nitinol Wires -- Thermal Spray Coatings on an Aged 7475 Aluminum Alloy Substrate -- ELECTRIC RESISTIVITY EVALUATION OF THE Fe- 31Mn- 7.5Al- 1- 5Si- 1.0C ALLOY -- On the Influence of the Process of Carbonitriding in Smouldering Discharge on the Properties of 25CrMnSiNiMo Steel -- Effect of Nitriding on the Fatigue Properties of Continuously Cast Gray Irons -- Vacuum Technology -- Hydrogen Pick-Up during Low Pressure Gas Carburising compared with traditional Gas Carburising Processes -- The Benefits of Using 3 Gas Mixture Low Pressure Carburizing (LPC) for High Alloy Steels -- Numerical Simulation of Gas Quenching Process of Workpieces -- Fast Track -- Demonstrations of Intensive Quenching Methods for Steel Parts -- Modern Gas Quenching Chambers Supported by SimVaCPlus™ Hardness Application -- Curtains in Continuous Furnaces -- How to organize and run a low-cost and highly effective metallurgical/ processing lab for small- and medium- size heat treatment facilities -- The Role of Cleaning in the Heat Treatment Process -- Author Index.