cpm10v
Aluminum
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2005
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ
I do a lot of plate work out of 1045 hot roll steel and typically have the plate "stress relieved" after being burned out and prior to grinding. I received a quote today from a vendor who recommended "annealing" versus "stress relieving." I asked them what the difference was in this application since I normally think of annealing as softening something that has been hardened. They state that "annealing" involves a longer soak time at the same temperature you'd use to stress relieve; basically, if something was annealed it was also stress relieved but if something was stress relieved it was not relieved. Any ideas as to whether this is a matter of semantics or have I just been in the dark? The material in question is 1045 HRS but I suppose it could apply to any low or medium carbon steel.