this experimental study investigated the effects of quenching and tempering heat treatment on fatiguebehavior and also tempering temperature and time holding of aisi 1060 steel. at first, the specimenswere austenitized at 800˚c for 1 hour, and then were quenched in the water bath of 25˚c temperature.after that, tempering process was done at the temperature of 250˚c, 450˚c and 650˚c for 1 and 2 ...

Parallel tempering and population annealing are both effective methods for simulating equilibrium systems with rough free energy landscapes. Parallel tempering, also known as replica exchange Monte Carlo, is a Markov chain Monte Carlo method while population annealing is a sequential Monte Carlo method. Both methods overcome the exponential slowing associated with high free energy barriers. The...

We propose a new stochastic global optimization method by accelerating the simulated tempering scheme with random walks executed on a temperature ladder with various transition step sizes. By suitably choosing the length of the transition steps, the accelerated scheme enables the search process to execute large jumps and escape entrapment in local minima, while retaining the capability to explo...

Softening frequently occurs in dual-phase steels under isothermal tempering of martensite. Recently, non-isothermal tempering is implemented to decrease the softening process in dualphase steels. Here, we have discovered using high power electropulsing treatment can significantly enhance the strengthening effects via the formation of ultrafine-grained ferrite with nano-cementite particles in te...

Effects of tempering temperature on tensile and hole expansion properties in a dual-phase C–Mn steel were investigated. The ultimate tensile strength and yield strength decreased and elongations increased with an increase of tempering temperature. The hole expansion property increased significantly at the tempering temperature ranging from 200 to 300 8C and did not show significant difference w...

The effect of tempering temperature, within the range of 400 to 700°C, on the microstructure and hardness of two super-bainitic steels, one as the control parent sample and the other with added Co & Al was investigated. Post-tempering examinations of the super-bainitic samples showed that low temperature tempering cycles (400–500°C) resulted in carbides formation, and some increases in the hard...

Modelling of technological processes of heat treatment or welding, involving multiple heat source transitions, requires considering the phenomenon of tempering. In work have been presented results of dilatometric research of hardened C45 steel subjected to tempering. The analysis of the infl uence of heating rate at the kinetic determined from dilatometric curves has been made. There have also ...

A modification of the edge stabilization technique is proposed to improve the behavior of the method when solving conservation equations with nonsmooth data or nonsmooth solutions. The key ingredient is tempering the edge stabilization in regions of large gradients through appropriate weights. The new method is shown to preserve the convergence properties of the original method on smooth soluti...