Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 9195-9205Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2020.06.041
Keywords
Expanded austenite; Plasma nitrocarburizing; Carbon fibre-reinforced carbon; Active screen technology; Corrosion
Funding
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [03VP05501, 03VP05502]
- Schimpf (TU Bergakademie Freiberg)
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Low temperature plasma nitrocarburizing processes are widely used surface treatment tech-niques to improve the surface hardness and wear resistance of stainless steels without loss of their excellent corrosion resistance. In the present study, plasma nitrocarburizing based on the active screen technology was applied in an industrial-scale cold wall reac-tor for the treatment of AISI 316L. Different technological aspects of a cold wall active screen plasma nitrocarburizing (ASPNC) reactor are addressed. The current study compiles recent achievements for the ASPNC treatment using an active screen made of carbon fibre-reinforced carbon under varying plasma conditions. In addition, it is shown that utilizing an active screen made of carbon opens up the possibility to control the structural properties of expanded austenite by the variation of the plasma conditions. It is revealed that for the ASPNC treatment using an active carbon screen, the high reactivity of the generated plasma at the carbon surface suppresses the requirement to apply a bias discharge. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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