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    Work hardening, also known as strain hardening, is the process by which a material's load-bearing capacity (strength) increases during plastic (permanent)...
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    processing as well. These mechanisms for crystalline materials include Work hardening Solid solution strengthening Precipitation strengthening Grain boundary...
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  • Cold working (redirect from Cold work)
    following the flow of the metal; which may cause work hardening and anisotropic material properties. Work hardening makes the metal harder, stiffer, and stronger...
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    minimum size is achieved. Finally, the work hardening rate becomes low again in the exhaustion/saturation of hardening stage 3 of plastic flow, as small shear...
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  • abrasion. When a metal undergoes strain hardening its yield strength increases but its ductility decreases. Strain hardening actually increases the number of...
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  • Hardness (section Hardening)
    There are five hardening processes: Hall-Petch strengthening, work hardening, solid solution strengthening, precipitation hardening, and martensitic...
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  • particulates strengthening structure, at 1-D there is work/forest hardening with line dislocations as the hardening mechanism, and at 2-D there is grain boundary...
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    For strain less than the ultimate tensile strain, the increase of work-hardening rate in this region will be greater than the area reduction rate, thereby...
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  • ability of a material to become stronger due to strain hardening. Strain hardening (work hardening) is the process by which a material's load-bearing capacity...
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    the desired result such as hardening or softening of a material. Heat treatment techniques include annealing, case hardening, precipitation strengthening...
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  • points. It is especially applicable to metals that harden with plastic deformation (see work hardening), showing a smooth elastic-plastic transition. As...
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    can increase the strength of the product by a process called work hardening. Work hardening creates microscopic defects in the metal, which resist further...
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    into the surface. Different depths of hardening are desirable for different purposes: sharp tools need deep hardening to allow grinding and resharpening...
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    where c is a constant determined by yield strength, Poisson's ratio, work-hardening exponent and geometrical factors – usually ranging between 2 and 4....
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  • Strain hardening Work hardening, also known as strain hardening, is the strengthening of a metal or polymer by plastic deformation. Work hardening may be...
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  • the high work hardening rate of PTFE, ePTFE is significantly stronger than the unstretched material. On a microscopic level, this work hardening corresponds...
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    leave the mass of the metal ready to be work-hardened). Second, the alloy is capable of greater work-hardening than is the case with pure copper, so that...
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    somewhat brittle. In 1906, precipitation hardening alloys were discovered by Alfred Wilm. Precipitation hardening alloys, such as certain alloys of aluminium...
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    motion. This causes a hardening of the metal as deformation progresses. This effect is known as strain hardening or work hardening. Dislocation density...
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    which it becomes easier to shape by forging, or to the point at which work hardening no longer occurs. The metal (known as the "workpiece") is transported...
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  • point, all dislocation related hardening mechanisms become irrelevant. In work hardening (also referred to as strain hardening) the material is strained past...
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    cobalt or other elements to maximize solution hardening. This also allows the use of precipitation hardening and improves the alloy's temperature resistance...
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    acidic or salty materials. The cold-work tool steels include the O series (oil-hardening), the A series (air-hardening), and the D series (high carbon-chromium)...
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  • modulus of elasticity, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion, and work hardening. Other important factors are operating conditions, cutting tool material...
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    layers bonded to high strength aluminium alloy core material Aludur An age-hardening aluminum alloy produced by the Giulini Werke in the early twentieth century...
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    impacting and seizing on it work-hardens more than the rest of the volume of metal. As a consequence of this work hardening, this first layer of metal...
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    microstructure gives the steels a low yield strength, high rate of work hardening, and good formability. Microalloyed steels: Steels which contain very...
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  • Adeena; Krupa, Terry (2013). "Cognitive work hardening: a return-to-work intervention for people with depression". Work. 45 (4): 423–430. doi:10.3233/wor-131635...
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  • Induction hardening is a type of surface hardening in which a metal part is induction-heated and then quenched. The quenched metal undergoes a martensitic...
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    metal is deformed work hardening effects are negated by the recrystallization process. Cold forging typically results in work hardening of the piece. Drop...
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