The structure of Ti6Al4 V alloy, its microhardness, surface roughness and corrosion resistance after anodic plasma electrolytic nitrocarburising (PEN/C) in an electrolyte containing carbamide and ammonium chloride were investigated. An X-ray diffractometer and a scanning electron microscopy were used to characterise the phase composition and structure of the modified surface. The effect of processing temperature on the corrosion resistance of the PEN/C samples was examined by means of potentiodynamic polarisation in Ringer's solution. It was found that the PEN/C provides the formation of the external oxide layer (rutile) and a solid solution of carbon and nitrogen in titanium with martensite structure after quenching in the electrolyte. The microhardness of the layer is 740 HV; the surface roughness decreases from 1 to 0.63 μm. Corrosion resistance in Ringer's solution does not deteriorate after anodic PEN/C at low temperature.
Steel surface can be polished after its plasma electrolytic nitriding using the same electrolyser. Medium carbon steel is nitrided in the aqueous solution containing ammonium chloride and ammonium nitrate under stationary heating at 750°C for 5 min. The surface roughness is shown to decrease from 4.5 to 1.9 µm due to plasma electrolytic polishing during 2 min using the mode of current interruption without changing the structure of the diffusion layers.
Effect of the electrolyte temperature on the current-voltage and temperature-voltage characteristics of the anodc plasma electrolytic treatment of a steel sample, as well as the features of the formation of a stable vapour-gaseous envelope were considered. Spectral analysis revealed the glow of the heated anode zone without lines of elements of electrolyte and electrode. The result of the influence of the plasma electrolytic treatment mode on the surface condition was shown.
The results of modifying the surface of austenitic stainless steel by anodic plasma electrolytic treatment are presented. Surface treatment was carried out in aqueous electrolytes based on ammonium chloride (10%) with the addition of ammonia (5%) as a source of nitrogen (for nitriding), boric acid (3%) as a source of boron (for boriding) or glycerin (10%) as a carbon source (for carburizing). Morphology, surface roughness, phase composition and microhardness of the diffusion layers in addition to the tribological properties were studied. The influence of physicochemical processes during the anodic treatment of the features of the formation of the modified surface and its operational properties are shown. The study revealed the smoothing of irregularities and the reduction in surface roughness during anodic plasma electrolytic treatment due to electrochemical dissolution. An increase in the hardness of the nitrided layers to 1450 HV with a thickness of up to 20–25 μm was found due to the formation of iron nitrides and iron-chromium carbides with a 3.7-fold decrease in roughness accompanied by an increase in wear resistance by 2 orders. The carburizing of the steel surface leads to a smaller increase in hardness (up to 700 HV) but a greater thickness of the hardened layer (up to 80 μm) due to the formation of chromium carbides and a solid solution of carbon. The roughness and wear resistance of the carburized surface change are approximately the same values as after nitriding. As a result of the boriding of the austenitic stainless steel, there is no hardening of the surface, but, at the same time, there is a decrease in roughness and an increase in wear resistance on the surface. It has been established that frictional bonds in the friction process are destroyed after all types of processing as a result of the plastic displacement of the counter body material. The type of wear can be characterized as fatigue wear with boundary friction and plastic contact. The correlation of the friction coefficient with the Kragelsky–Kombalov criterion, a generalized dimensionless criterion of surface roughness, is shown.
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