Nitriding treatments of low alloyed steels can be performed only at relatively low temperatures in order to avoid a decrease of corrosion resistance due to nitride layers formation. These conditions promote the formation of the compound layer and diffusion zone, which shows high hardness and good corrosion resistance. In the present paper, the influence of the gas mixture N2-H2 in plasma nitrid...

2014 Modelling of plasma reactors for steel surface nitriding has been achieved in discharge and postdischarge conditions of N2 flowing gas. Diagnostics and calculations have been focused on the N2(X, V) vibrational molecules and N atoms which are the most populated long living species. It has been demonstrated that these neutral active species produce steel surface nitriding with the same char...

the main aim of this research was to investigate the effects of plasma nitriding parameters including frequency and duty cycle for a seris of test samples with different grooves during conventional plasma nitriding (cpn) and active screen plasma nitriding (aspn) treatments. the sample assemblies were consisted of rectangular grooved steel blocks with different groove dimensions of 2, 4, 6, 8 an...

Traditionally, JIS SKD11 tool steel is corresponding to the AISI D2. Since this material possesses high hardness and excellent wear resistance, it is usually used as a mold material and cutting tools.1,2) In order to improve the tool life, many studies have focused on surface treatment as a method of protecting the internal material.2) Nitriding is a thermo-chemical process with nitrogen diffus...

The article presents a complex system of design, in situ visualization and control of the commonly used surface treatment process: the gas nitriding process. In the computer design conception, analytical mathematical models and artificial intelligence methods were used. As a result, possibilities were obtained of the poly-optimization and poly-parametric simulations of the course of the process...

The residual stress and hardness generated by the nitriding process are important parameters for increasing bending fatigue strength to Ti-6Al-4V. Therefore, this research is focused on analysis of hardness, including surface morphology microstructure at different times temperatures. plasma temperatures 750 °C 800 with 5 h 10 were selected in research. After nitriding, material would have compr...