Frank Masyada

Thermal cycling process strengthens metals, reduces stress fatigue By taking a different approach to modern heat treating and cryogenic metallurgical process, Harmonic Footprinting, LLC (Largo, Florida) as developed a proprietary materials treatment that further improves metals’ tensile strength, yield strength, and corrosion resistance. Called "thermal cycling," the process alternately cools and heats metals in cycles to completely change the metals’ crystalline structure, and uses vibrational technology to determine when a metal has reached its optimum crystalline structure. According to Frank Masyada, CEO and inventor of the thermal cycling process, each family of metals has a specific thermal range (a series of temperature ranges) that facilitates the greatest amount of restructuring at the molecular and atomic level. Using water as an example, Masyada explains that a metal alloy, much like water, has a certain low temperature where molecular activity stops or is "frozen". Using vibrational analysis, Frank Masyada and his colleagues are able to determine the temperature where molecular activity ceases in a material by analyzing the material’s resonant sound frequency and amplitude (duration of the resonation). During thermal cycling, a material is alternately cooled to its optimal low temperature, then heated to its beginning temperature or higher. When a material is put through these extreme temperature swings, its molecular structure is completely reorganized, Masyada says. This reorganization optimizes or "tightens" the material’s particulate grain structure.