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Stress Relief Annealing |
Stress relief annealing
s applied to decrease residual stress without influencing
the structural conditions of the material. This process can
be applied before hardening and tempering (with sufficiently
high temperatures) or after the hardening and tempering process
with temperatures below the last tempering. Stress relief
annealing before hardening and tempering processes or before
nitriding processes can cause a limitation of warpage.
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