Method for Increasing Endurance Limit of Steel Articles

Author:  John F. Romans, Berea, OH
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 11/Issue 2, June 1997
Doc ID:  1997047
Year of Publication:  1997
Abstract:  
US Patent 3,205,556 Sept. 14, 1965 This invention relates, as indicated, to a method for improving certain characteristics of steel articles, and more particularly to a method for increasing the strength and hardness characteristics of steel surfaces, particularly in spring steel surfaces, with a resultant increase in the endurance limit of the article.