ML3412 Heat Treatment Laboratory Syllabus:

ML3412 Heat Treatment Laboratory Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The main learning objective of this course is to prepare students for:
1. Performing heat treatment operations on the plain carbon steels
2. Interpreting the effect of quenching media and tempering temperature and time on the hardness of the steels
3. Enhancing the case hardness of the low carbon steels by carburizing treatment
4. Measuring the case depth of the case-hardened steels
5. Identifying the suitable heat treatment for non-ferrous materials.

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

1. Hardening and tempering of High carbon steels
2. Annealing and normalizing of hardened steels
3. Spheroidization annealing of high carbon steels
4. Effect of quenching media on hardening of steel
5. Effect of tempering temperature and time on tempering of steel
6. Effect of carbon percentage on the hardening of steel
7. Carburizing of low carbon steel
8. Case hardness depth measurements
9. Hardenability test – Jominy End Quench Test
10. Heat treatment of cast iron
11. Heat treatment of Stainless Steels and High speed steels
12. Heat treatment of non-ferrous alloys

TOTAL: 60 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:

Upon completion of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Perform various heat treatment processes on plain carbon steels and analyze the effect of the processes on steels.
2. Execute the case hardening effect on low carbon steel and to analyze the case depth measurements.
3. Interpret the effect of quenching media and the carbon percentage on the hardening of steel
4. Exemplify the effect of Jominy end quench test on the hardenability of steel.
5. Apply heat treatment on the various non-ferrous materials and analyze the effect of heat treatment on these materials.