Question

(a) Differentiate between heat treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys (b) With your understanding of material's thermal properties, describe the significance of bimetallic structures (components made of two different materials) with different coefficients of thermal expansion.

Answer 1

In ferrous metal iron present but on the other hand in the non ferrous material iron does not present.That is why there is a different heat treatment process for ferrous and nonferrous materials.

Ferrous materials contains iron is the main constitute.Like steel ,cast iron ,wrought iron .Steel and cast iron are the alloy element of iron ans carbon.Wrought iron is the purest from of iron.

Heat treatment process for ferrous materials :

1.Normalizing

2.Annealing

3.Quenching

4.Surface hardening

Heat treatment process for non ferrous materials :

Mostly annealing process is used for non ferrous materials.After annealing non ferrous will become soft.

When two metal plates are joined then they form a bimetallic structure.The bimetallic structure is used to find the relationship of thermal temperature and the mechanical displacement.

The use of bimetallic structure -In clock ,thermometers ,engines.