Stiele, H.H.StieleBrand, M.M.BrandAsperheim, J.-I.J.-I.Asperheim2022-03-042022-03-042010https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/2242222-s2.0-84864877163Due to size and costs of big slewing rings, the common methods of experimental trial and error together with destructive test methods for verification of the inductive hardening process are limited. Thereby it is essential to simulate the hardening process in addition to the tests. With these simulations, it should be possible to get conclusions for the hardening pattern, the residual stress and distortion. With actually existing methods a fully three dimensional simulation is extremely time consuming. For that reason, a new method was developed that combines two dimensional with three dimensional simulation to shorten the time for calculation tremendously.de621journal article