In order to make the metal 45# precision steel pipe have the required mechanical properties, physical properties and chemical properties, in addition to reasonable selection of materials and various forming processes, heat treatment process is often essential. Steel is the most widely used material in machinery industry. The microstructure of 45# precision steel pipe is complex and can be controlled by heat treatment, so the heat treatment of 45# precision steel pipe is the main content of metal heat treatment. In addition, aluminum, copper, magnesium, titanium and their alloys can also change their mechanical, physical and chemical properties through heat treatment, thus obtaining different properties.
In the process from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, the role of heat treatment was gradually recognized by people. As early as 770 BC to 222 BC, people in China discovered in production practice that the properties of copper and iron would change due to the influence of temperature and pressure deformation. Softening of white cast iron is an important process for manufacturing farm tools.
In the 6th century BC, 45# precision steel pipe weapon was gradually adopted. In order to improve the hardness of steel, quenching technology has been developed rapidly. Two swords and a halberd unearthed in Yanxiadu, Yixian County, Hebei Province, China, have martensite in the microstructure, indicating that they have been quenched.
With the development of quenching technology, people have gradually discovered the influence of quenching agent on quenching quality. In the Three Kingdoms period, Shuman Puyuan once made 3,000 knives for Zhuge Liang in this oblique valley in Shaanxi. According to legend, he sent people to Chengdu to get water for quenching. This shows that ancient China paid attention to the cooling capacity of different water quality, as well as the cooling capacity of oil and urine. The sword unearthed in the tomb of Wang Jing in Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-24 AD) in China has a carbon content of 0. 15-0.4% and a surface carbon content of more than 0.6%, indicating that carburizing technology has been applied. But at that time, as a personal "craft" secret, it refused to spread, so it developed slowly.
1863, British metallographers and geologists showed six different metallographic structures of steel under a microscope, which proved that the internal structure of steel would change when it was heated and cooled, and the high-temperature phase in steel would change into a harder phase when it was rapidly cooled. The iron isomerism theory established by Frenchman Osmond and the iron-carbon phase diagram first formulated by Englishman Austin laid a theoretical foundation for the heat treatment process of modern 45# precision steel pipe. At the same time, people have also studied the protection methods of metals during heat treatment to avoid oxidation and decarbonization of metals during heating.
From 1850 to 1880, there are a series of patents on the application of various gases (such as hydrogen, gas, carbon monoxide, etc.). ) for protective heating. From 1889 to 1890, British Lake obtained patents for bright heat treatment of various metals.
Since the 20th century, the development of 45# precision steel pipe physics and the transplantation and application of other new technologies have made the heat treatment process of 45# precision steel pipe get greater development. A remarkable progress is 190 1 ~ 1925, which uses rotary hearth furnace for gas carburizing in industrial production; Dew point potentiometer appeared in 1930s, which made the carbon potential in furnace atmosphere controllable. Later, by using carbon dioxide infrared instrument and oxygen probe, a method to further control the carbon potential in the furnace atmosphere was developed. In 1960s, plasma field was used in heat treatment technology, and ion nitriding and carburizing processes were developed. With the application of laser and electron beam technology, 45# precision steel pipe has obtained new surface heat treatment and chemical heat treatment methods.