Modern industrial technological processes require special preparation of metal surfaces. Currently, there are different methods of surface treatment of metal. Among them, it is possible to distinguish the method of electrolytic-plasma polishing (PEP– plasma electrolytic polishing) is distinguished as an innovative, due to its ecological properties, low energy consumption per unit of surface to be processed, high speed of modification and the possibility of processing parts of complex geometric shape. The main advantage of this method of surface modification is its ecological purity, which makes it possible to apply this technology to the food and pharmaceutical industry. Despite the large number of journal publications, electrolytic plasma polishing remains an innovative surface modification method that needs to be thoroughly studied in order to improve understanding of physical processes and optimize the surface modification process. The process of obtaining electrolytic plasma polishing of copper products in a solution of ammonium sulfate with the addition of sulfuric acid is considered in the paper. The experiment was divided into two stages. At first, the samples were treated for 600 seconds each for the obtain of temperature characteristics, with a strong correlation between the load current and the electrolyte temperature was observed. Dependence of the current on the temperature of the electrolyte showed four different modes of treatment. One of the modes showed the best results. During the second series of experiments, the processing of objects from 30 to 600 seconds. As a result of the conducted studies, optimal regimes for polishing copper objects were obtained.
9ХФМ steel was irradiated with a high-current electron beam. The high-current electron beam was obtained in the TEMP-A accelerator. The irradiation was performed for various samples of the material of a ball mill drum. Part of the samples were taken from the surface of the balls, which had different degrees of wear. Samples taken from the depth of the balls, which is equal to half the diameter, were also irradiated. Microhardness measurements, metallographic, and fractographic analysis were used to study mechanical and microstructural changes. In all cases, a change in hardness was detected. The degree of change in hardness is different for different samples. Based on fractographic analysis, using SEM microscopy, one of the mechanisms that contribute to increasing the surface hardness is determined. This mechanism is the cleaning of the surface of samples from impurities of phosphorus and sulfur using a high-current electron beam.
The paper discusses the problem of increasing the performance properties of aluminum alloy D16 for possible more efficient use in the fields of transport engineering. A property modification tool is a high current relativistic electron beam. The irradiation occurs in a vacuum. The peculiarities of the layer distribution of characteristic zones resulting from irradiation are investigated. Metallographic and fractographic analysis is carried out, and microhardness values are measured.
Titanium VT22 alloy was irradiated in the TEMP-A accelerator with the high current electron beam with the energy of 350 keV, beam current of 2 kA, pulse length around 5 μs, and beam diameter of 45 mm. The irradiation was performed for three samples with 1 to 3 pulses separately. Numeric simulations of the temperature distributions in the targets were conducted using the thermoelastic ablation model. The microstructural and mechanical properties of the irradiated alloy were studied using microhardness testing, metallography and fractography analysis.
The capture, retention, and thermal desorption of deuterium and helium ions with medium energies implanted into tungsten-coated multilayer functional structures and the formation of corresponding radiation-induced damages in the crystal lattice of the tungsten coatings of those structures have been studied making use of the thermal desorption spectroscopy and electron microscopy methods. The behavior of deuterium and helium in the examined materials and its dependence on the post-implantation heating temperature, the dose of irradiation with D+ and He+ ions, and the irradiation condition – separate (making use of ions of only one kind) or sequential (making use of ions of both kinds) – are analyzed. A classification of radiation-induced defects and mechanisms of their annealing are proposed.
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