Thermochemical surface engineering of steels : improving materials performance /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Woodhead Publishing, 2015. ©2015 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (plates, 827 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Woodhead Publishing Series in Metals and Surface Engineering Woodhead Publishing series in metals and surface engineering ; no. 62. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13453146 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Thermochemical Surface Engineering of Steels; Copyright; Contents; About the editors; List of contributors; Woodhead Publishing Series in Metals and Surface Engineering; Introduction; Part One Fundamentals; 1 Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas and gas-solid reactions; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Equilibria for gas-exchange reactions; 1.3 Equilibria for gas-solid reactions; 1.4 Kinetics of gas-exchange reactions; 1.5 Kinetics of gas-solid reactions; 1.6 Phase stabilities in the Fe-N, Fe-C and Fe-C-N systems; References; 2 Kinetics of thermochemical surface treatments; 2.1 Introduction.
- 2.2 Development of an interstitial solid solution2.3 Precipitation of second phase particles in a supersaturated matrix; 2.4 Product-layer growth at the surface; 2.5 Conclusion; References; 3 Process technologies for thermochemical surface engineering; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Different ways of achieving a hardened wear-resistant surface; 3.3 Furnaces; 3.4 Gaseous carburising; 3.5 Gaseous carbonitriding; 3.6 Gaseous nitriding and nitrocarburising; 3.7 Variants of gaseous nitriding and nitrocarburising; 3.8 Gaseous boriding; 3.9 Plasma assisted processes: plasma (ion) carburising.
- 3.10 Plasma (ion) nitriding/nitrocarburising3.11 Implantation processes (nitriding); 3.12 Salt bath processes (nitrocarburising); 3.13 Laser assisted nitriding; 3.14 Fluidised bed nitriding; Acknowledgements; References; Part Two Improved materials performance; 4 Fatigue resistance of carburized and nitrided steels; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The concept of local fatigue resistance; 4.3 Statistical analysis of fatigue resistance; 4.4 Fatigue behavior of carburized microstructures; 4.5 Fatigue behavior of nitrided and nitrocarburized microstructures; 4.6 Conclusion; References.
- 5 Tribological behaviour of thermochemically surface engineered steels5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Contact types; 5.3 Wear mechanisms; 5.4 Conclusions; References; 6 Corrosion behaviour of nitrided, nitrocarburised and carburised steels; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Corrosion behaviour of nitrided and nitrocarburised unalloyed and low alloyed steels: introduction; 6.3 Nitriding processes and corrosion behaviour; 6.4 Structure and composition of compound layers and corrosion behaviour; 6.5 Post-oxidation and corrosion behaviour; 6.6 Passivation of nitride layers; 6.7 Corrosion behaviour in molten metals.
- 6.8 Corrosion behaviour of nitrided, nitrocarburised and carburised stainless steels: introduction6.9 Austenitic-ferritic and austenitic steels: corrosion in chloride-free solutions; 6.10 Austenitic-ferritic and austenitic steels: corrosion in chloride-containing solutions; 6.11 Ferritic, martensitic and precipitation hardening stainless steels; 6.12 Conclusion; References; Part Three Nitriding, nitrocarburizing and carburizing; 7 Nitriding of binary and ternary iron-based alloys; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Strong, intermediate and weak Me-N interaction.