This volume contains papers collected by results of the conference on vacuum heat treatment and heat treatment of tools that was held on november 20 - 21, 2018 in puchov, slovakia. The published papers cover different fields of the main conference topic, such as heat treatment of tool steels in a vacuum; thermo-chemical treatment of tool steels; cryogenic treatments; interrelationships between the treatment parameters, obtained microstructures and resulting mechanical properties; distortion behaviour of components, and wear performance of tools and engineering components.
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