Tempering and Nonlinear Hardness Model

The DANTE tempering models can account for both low and high temperature tempering.
Time and temperature dependent martensite to tempered martensite transformation included.
The DANTE tempering models can simulate carbide precipitaion and coarsening for hardness and strength.

Carbide Precipitation and Coarsening

DANTE tempering model is time and temperature dependent with the following features:
- Time and temperature dependent transformation from martensite to tempered martensite
- Iron carbide coarsening, which describes softening due to temper.
- Alloy carbide precipitation and coarsening which describes the secondary hardening effect.

DANTE tempering model can also be used to describe the material volume change during tempering.
- Model is carbon dependent with description of carbide size distribution.
- This model is critical for residual stress change or tempering cracks.

Nonlinear Hardness Model

Hardness is calculated based on mixture law using calculated volume fraction of phases. The hardness model also considers:
- the contribution from iron carbide and allow carbide.
- the material softening due to iron carbide coarsening.
- the secondary hardening (allow carbide, precipitation and coarsening)

Student/Trial License

Get hands-on experience with DANTE. Our student and trial license offers full access to heat treatment modeling tools so you can learn, experiment, and explore real-world simulations.

resources

Research that drives our decisions

Explore our peer-reviewed studies and technical papers developed over the past 50 years in the industry by our engineers.

Talk with our experts

Have a project or a question about heat treating? Connect with our engineers for to discuss how DANTE can fit into your workflow.

tools for heat treatment modeling

See how the DANTE suite enables engineers to simulate quenching, distortion, hardness, stress, and metallurgical phases

Proven industry results

Explore our case studies showing how DANTE FEA predicts distortion, hardness, phase changes, and residual stress.