Thermochemical Surface Engineering of Steels

About the editors List of contributors Woodhead Publishing Series in Metals and Surface Engineering Introduction Part One: Fundamentals1: Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas and gas-solid reactionsAbstract1.1 Introduction1.2 Equilibria for gas-exchange reactions1.3 Equilibria for gas-solid reactions1.4 Kinetics of gas-exchange reactions1.5 Kinetics of gas-solid reactions1.6 Phase stabilities in the Fe-N, Fe-C and Fe-C-N systems2: Kinetics of thermochemical surface treatmentsAbstract2.1 Introduction2.2 Development of an interstitial solid solution2.3 Precipitation of second phase particles in a supersaturated matrix2.4 Product-layer growth at the surface2.5 Conclusion3: Process technologies for thermochemical surface engineeringAbstract3.1 Introduction3.2 Different ways of achieving a hardened wear-resistant surface3.3 Furnaces3.4 Gaseous carburising3.5 Gaseous carbonitriding3.6 Gaseous nitriding and nitrocarburising3.7 Variants of gaseous nitriding and nitrocarburising3.8 Gaseous boriding3.9 Plasma assisted processes: plasma (ion) carburising3.10 Plasma (ion) nitriding/nitrocarburising3.11 Implantation processes (nitriding)3.12 Salt bath processes (nitrocarburising)3.13 Laser assisted nitriding3.14 Fluidised bed nitridingAcknowledgements Part Two: Improved materials performance4: Fatigue resistance of carburized and nitrided steelsAbstract4.1 Introduction4.2 The concept of local fatigue resistance4.3 Statistical analysis of fatigue resistance4.4 Fatigue behavior of carburized microstructures4.5 Fatigue behavior of nitrided and nitrocarburized microstructures4.6 Conclusion5: Tribological behaviour of thermochemically surface engineered steelsAbstract5.1 Introduction5.2 Contact types5.3 Wear mechanisms5.4 Conclusions6: Corrosion behaviour of nitrided, nitrocarburised and carburised steelsAbstract6.1 Introduction6.2 Corrosion behaviour of nitrided and nitrocarburised unalloyed and low alloyed steels: introduction6.3 Nitriding processes and corrosion