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Thermochemical Surface Engineering of Steels, Second Edition presents up to date information on a range of techniques and their applications. This edition expands upon the material presented in the first edition, now including a discussion of high temperature process for stainless steels as well as a new chapter on solution nitriding, as well as fully updating the current materials. The book is comprised of five parts, which take the reader from theory through to application. Part 1 presents foundational information regarding Thermodynamics; Part 2 discusses the requirements for improved fatigue resistance for materials exposed to thermochemical treatments. Parts 3 looks at nitriding, nitrocarburizing and carburizing, followed by a look at specific low temperature carburizing and nitriding; The book concludes with a discussion of various thermochemical surface engineering methods.
List of contents
Part One: Fundamentals1. Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas and gas-solid reactions
2. Kinetics of thermochemical surface treatments
3. Process technologies for thermochemical surface engineering
Part Two: Improved materials performance4. Fatigue resistance of carburized and nitrided steels
5. Tribological behaviour of thermochemically surface engineered steels
6. Corrosion behaviour of nitrided, nitrocarburised and carburised steels
Part Three: Nitriding, nitrocarburizing and carburizing7. Nitriding of binary and ternary iron-based alloys
8. Development of the compound layer during nitriding and nitrocarburising of iron and iron-carbon alloys
9. Austenitic nitriding and nitrocarburizing of steels
10. Classical nitriding of heat treatable steel
11. Plasma-assisted nitriding and nitrocarburizing of steel and other ferrous alloys
12. ZeroFlow gas nitriding of steels
13. Carburizing of steels
Part Four: Low temperature carburizing and nitriding14. Low temperature surface hardening of stainless steel
15. Gaseous processes for low temperature surface hardening of stainless steel
16. Plasma-assisted processes for surface hardening of stainless steel
17. Applications of low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels
Part Five: Dedicated thermochemical surface engineering methods18. Boriding to improve the mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of steels
19. The thermo-reactive deposition and diffusion process for coating steels to improve wear resistance
20. Sherardizing: corrosion protection of steels by zinc diffusion coatings
21. Aluminizing of steel to improve high temperature corrosion resistance
22. Duplex Treatment
About the author
Eric J. Mittemeijer, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and Institute for Materials Science, University of Stuttgart, Germany.Marcel A. J. Somers, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark.
