Methods of Protection of Steel | Oxidation | Metallurgy
Unless special precautions are taken, heating the steel results usually in certain amounts of oxidation or scaling and may also result in decarburisation. Both are usually undesirable. To prevent oxidation and decarburisation of steels, various methods from the simplest, but not completely reliable, to complex and expensive but almost full proof, are used depending on the criticality of the part, [...]