Surface Properties of Fe_4N Compounds Layer on AISI 4340 Steel Modified by Pulsed Plasma Nitriding

作     者：J.C.Díaz-Guillén G.Vargas-Gutiérrez E.E.Granda-Gutiérrez J.S.Zamarripa-Pia S.I.Pérez-Aguilar J.Candelas-Ramírez L.lvarez-Contreras 

作者机构：Centro de Investigacin en Materiales AvanzadosS.C.Miguel de Cervantes 120Complejo Industrial ChihuahuaC.P.31109 ChihuahuaChihuahuaMexico Corporacin Mexicana de Investigacin en MaterialesS.A.de C.V.Ciencia y Tecnología No 790Fracc.Saltillo 400C.P.25290 SaltilloCoahuilaMexico Centro de Investigacin y Estudios Avanzados del IPNUnidad SaltilloCarretera Saltillo Monterrey km 13Apdo.Postal 663C.P.25000 SaltilloCoahuilaMexico 

出 版 物：《Journal of Materials Science & Technology》 (材料科学技术（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2013年第29卷第3期

页      面：287-290页

核心收录：

学科分类：080503[工学-材料加工工程] 08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 080201[工学-机械制造及其自动化] 

主　　题：Plasma nitriding Current density Hardness Corrosion 

摘      要：In this work, the effect of nitriding current density on hardness, crystalline phase composition, layer thickness and corrosion rate of AlSl 4340 steel has been studied. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that thin layers formed during nitriding process are constituted of 7-Fe4N for samples processed between 1 and 2.5 mA/cm2. Thickness of nitrided layer increases proportionally to current density （0 μm for 0.5 mA/cm2 to 15 pm for 2.5 mA/cm2）. Plasma nitriding increased the surface hardness from 300 HV50g for untreated sample, to around 800HV5og for nitrided samples at 1 mA/cm2. While the untreated samples exhibited a corrosion rate of 0.153 mm per year, the corrosion performance was improved up to 0.03 mm per year at current densities above 1 mA/cm2, which is about one fifth of the corrosion rate of the untreated sample.