Heat Treatment
QForm Heat Treatment is a special module for the simulation of different heat treatment processes.
The module is designed for simulation of heat treatment processes of alloys in a solid state either with or without polymorphic transformations (including steel, aluminum, nickel and titanium alloys). It is possible to predict the phase composition and the operational properties of the workpiece after heat treatment (hardness, tensile strength) as well as residual stresses and strains during and after heat treatment.
The module places no restrictions on the nature of temperature changes at each step of the heat treatment process or the sequence and duration of these steps. It is possible to simulate the following processes: solution heat treatment, quenching (including interrupted quenching, stepped quenching, quenching with sprayers, isothermal quenching, quenching with subcooling, quenching with self-tempering), tempering and aging (including multistage processes).