Reardon Metals provides heat treat consulting, materials and process engineering, mechanical engineering, root cause analysis, failure analysis, metallurgical services and training to industrial corporations worldwide. Our expertise in industrial heat treating operations and processes includes press quenching of automotive and aerospace gearing and industrial bearing races, martensitic hardening, tempering, annealing and normalizing as well as nitriding and case carburizing in both controlled atmosphere furnaces and vacuum furnaces. Failure analysis of automotive, industrial and aerospace gearing is among our specialties.
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Experimental octagon ingots of 304L stainless steel in transit to the hot rolling mill.Microscopic image of a 304L stainless steel bar produced from the experimental octagon ingot.
Austenitized industrial bearing race positioned on the lower die assembly of a press quenching machine just prior to oil quenching. Note the individual slotted rings which can be independently adjusted to meter the flow of oil over the bearing race during quenching.Microscopic image of the primary carbide distribution observed in a high speed steel bar. The severity of carbide segregation can be quantitatively characterized by rating for hook, network, and streak.
Stereo microscope image of the fracture surface of a failed stainless steel component. Note the crack origin.
