Terms covered in this blog post:
Heat treating
Tempering
Rockwell
Tensile strength
You may hear the term heat treating and wonder when we use it. While heat treating can be used to clean metal and for other reasons, it's also used to harden metal. We use heat treating to harden our tooling. Heat and metal combine to provide us with the hardness, durability, and sharpness needed to blank and form your metal parts.
Hardness can bring about brittleness. That's where you'll hear the term tempering. Tempering involves heating the steel to a set temperature while sacrificing some hardness.
You might hear the term Rockwell. Rockwell is a hardness scale. When we get steel, we get it in a set hardness that works for the blanking and forming of your metal parts.
There's one more term you might hear related to metal hardness. That's tensile strength. Tensile strength refers to the maximum stress that material can handle.
There's your beginner's guide to metal hardness. We take care of these considerations for you when we develop your part with you.
Hardness can bring about brittleness. That's where you'll hear the term tempering. Tempering involves heating the steel to a set temperature while sacrificing some hardness.
You might hear the term Rockwell. Rockwell is a hardness scale. When we get steel, we get it in a set hardness that works for the blanking and forming of your metal parts.
There's one more term you might hear related to metal hardness. That's tensile strength. Tensile strength refers to the maximum stress that material can handle.
There's your beginner's guide to metal hardness. We take care of these considerations for you when we develop your part with you.
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