Thermochemical surface engineering of steels / edited by Eric J. Mittemeijer and Marcel A. J. Somers.

Contenido: p. v a xi.

Biografía de editores: p. xiii.

Lista de colaboradores: p. xv-xvi.

Lista de volúmenes que integran la serie: p. xvii-xix.

Índice: p. 769-792.

Plate: p. 793-803.

Bibliografía: al finalizar cada capítulo.

Part One. Fundamentals.

1. Thermodynamicas and kinetics of gas and gas-solid reactions.

2. Kinetics of thermodchemical surface treatments.

3. Process technologies for thermodchemical surface engineering.

Part two. Improved materials perfomance.

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. Applicatons of low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels.

Part Five. Dedicated thermochemical surface engineering methods.

18. Boriding to improve the mechanical porperties 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 higt temperature corrosion resistance.