Validation of heat-treatment simulation
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Date: 2022-09-07

Kyozo Arimoto presented this talk at the HT2021 meeting held in USA. The work has been recognised as an `ASM Heat Treating Society Prime Contributor'. 

Kyozo Arimoto has been a consultant at Arimotech Ltd since 2002; he is the founder of that industry. He was a mechanical engineer for Hitachi Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. after graduating from Osaka Prefectural Technical College in 1972. He then moved to Century Research Center Corporation in 1986 and created some specialised computer codes until 1997. After that he was involved in developing a heat treatment module of a code at SFTC, USA, for 4 years. He has been developing a system for determination of cooling characteristics of quenchants.

Heat treatment simulation has progressed to the point where commercial software is widely available, and validations of simulation functions using experimental results has played a big role in getting there. Kyozo has a number of illustrative validation cases and can explain how  simple experiments can provide insight into heat treatment and help validate calculations. This includes a treatment of distortion.