Abstract:To determine the local heat treatment technique, a heat treatment test plate which can provide destructive test was established. Through the boundary condition analysis, the equivalent boundary conditions of the heat treatment test plate and the process equipment were determined. The numerical thermal analysis method of ANSYS software validated by the experiment was adopted to analyze the heat treatment process of heat treatment test plate and the corresponding process equipment. The results prove that temperature distribution of the test plate after heated and holding temperature are agree with that of the equipment. Therefore, it is feasible to obtain the heat treatment technique of the equipment by using the experiment result of the test plate. However, the manufacturing processes of the test plate are complicated, and thus it is uneconomical if using one time. In order to expand its utilization rate, the thermodynamic and heat transfer calculation methods were used to establish the formulas of the test plate of different material and different thickness. By using these formulas, the heat treatment techniques of equipment with different material and different thickness can determined by one test plate. It is known from the results that the temperature difference in the thickness direction of the test plate increases with the increase in thickness. When the thickness exceeds 120mm, the heat treatment may fail because the excessive temperature difference between the two sides if single-sided heating method was used. Properties such as specific heat capacity and thermal conductivity are different for different materials, and the heat treatment temperatures are also different. The larger specific heat capacity, lower thermal conductivity and higher heat treatment temperature takes longer heat treatment time and consumes more energy.