Heat treatment process team is mainly engaged in the research on the heat treatment technology of structural steel and stainless steel, superalloy, titanium alloy, aluminum alloy, and special functional materials, including the research directions of heat treatment with nitrogen based protective atmosphere, controlled atmosphere carburizing and computer simulation control, vacuum carburizing, pulse soft nitriding, deep nitriding, vacuum heat treatment, vacuum high pressure gas quenching heat treatment, vacuum precision magnetic heat treatment and etc.