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I pass this heat treatment definition along until I'm corrected or find a more succinct, better one. Heat treatment is the controlled heating and cooling of a metal in order to change its properties. Forging is controlled heating and cooling but is not considered a heat treatment by metallurgists, probably because of the plastic deformation involved.
Mar 13, 2012 Â·. The term age hardening is a general term referring to most (if not all) time and/or thermal treatments to increase the strength (and sometimes the ductility) of a heat-treated metal. It can result the release of built-in stresses or permit phases locked in (due to quenching) to transform .