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 materials presented in the first edition, now including a discussion of high temperature processes for stainless steels as well as a chapter on solution nitriding and a full update on current materials. Part One presents foundational information regarding Thermodynamics; Part Two discusses the requirements for improved fatigue resistance for materials exposed to thermochemical treatments. Part Three looks at nitriding, nitrocarburizing, and carburizing. Final sections look at specific low temperature carburizing and nitriding and discuss various thermochemical surface engineering methods.
Part One: Fundamentals
1. Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas and gassolid reactions
2. Kinetics of thermochemical surface treatments
3. Process technologies for thermochemical surface engineering
Part Two: Improved materials performance
4. 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 carburizing
7. 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 nitriding
14. 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 methods
18. 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
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.
