verb
- to heat-treat steel by cooling it from the austenite phase and then reheating it to produce a specific microstructure with improved mechanical properties
Usage: metallurgy; technical; transitive verb
Examples
- The engineers decided to ausform the steel to enhance its strength and ductility.
- Ausforming the alloy resulted in a finer grain structure.
- The metal was ausformed at a controlled temperature to achieve the desired hardness.
- Modern manufacturing often uses ausforming to improve the performance of structural steels.