“…This is followed by quenching which leads to a change in the crystallographic structure from austenite to martensite and hence to an increased hardness of the tool in a region close to the surface. Most contributions in the literature are concerned with numerical simulations of the inductive heating process (cf., e.g., [2,5,6,9,13,14,17,18,19,22]). The apparatus consists of a copper made coil around the tool as shown in Figure 1.1.…”