Abstract: A method of fabricating a martensitic stainless steel including: 1) heating steel to a temperature higher than austenizing temperature of the steel, then quenching the steel until a hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to a maximum temperature, and greater than or equal to a minimum temperature, a cooling rate being sufficiently fast for austenite not to transform into a ferrito-perlitic structure; 2) performing a first anneal followed by cooling until the hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to the maximum temperature and greater than or equal to the minimum temperature; 3) performing a second anneal followed by cooling to ambient temperature; and at the end of each of 1) and 2), performing: ?) as soon as temperature of the hottest portion of the steel reaches the maximum temperature, immediately heating the steel once more.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a martensitic stainless steel including: 1) heating steel to a temperature higher than austenizing temperature of the steel, then quenching the steel until a hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to a maximum temperature, and greater than or equal to a minimum temperature, a cooling rate being sufficiently fast for austenite not to transform into a ferrito-perlitic structure; 2) performing a first anneal followed by cooling until the hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to the maximum temperature and greater than or equal to the minimum temperature; 3) performing a second anneal followed by cooling to ambient temperature; and at the end of each of 1) and 2), performing: ?) as soon as temperature of the hottest portion of the steel reaches the maximum temperature, immediately heating the steel once more.

Abstract: Slotting milling cutter, comprising a carbide body (12) and a ceramic head (16) fixed by brazing to one end of the body, this head having teeth (22), each comprising a cutting edge (24) formed by the intersection between a front cutting face (A?) and a lower flank face, in which the milling cutter has a frustoconical general shape, the profile of the flank face, formed by the intersection of the flank face with a plane passing through the axis of the milling cutter, has an outwardly convex rounded shape, and the radial cutting angle is negative.

Abstract: Slotting milling cutter, comprising a carbide body (12) and a ceramic head (16) fixed by brazing to one end of the body, this head having teeth (22), each comprising a cutting edge (24) formed by the intersection between a front cutting face (A?) and a lower flank face, in which the milling cutter has a frustoconical general shape, the profile of the flank face, formed by the intersection of the flank face with a plane passing through the axis of the milling cutter, has an outwardly convex rounded shape, and the radial cutting angle is negative.