Distortion after Case Hardening of Steels

Duplex Hardening of Steels for Aeroengine Bearings

Duplex hardening is a process in which conventional heat-treatments such as secondary or case hardening are followed up by surface nitriding to achieve exceptional properties, particularly in the context of aeroengine bearings. Hardness values in excess of 1 000 HV can in principle be achieved, and although the hardness decreases as a function of depth below the surface, some level of enhanceme...

Secondary Hardening in High Speed Steels

Neural-Network Analysis of Irradiation Hardening in Low-Activation Steels

An artificial neural network has been used to model the irradiation hardening of lowactivation ferritic/martensitic steels. The data used to create the model span a range of displacement damage of 0 90 dpa, within a temperature range of 273 973 K and contain 1800 points. The trained model has been able to capture the non-linear dependence of yield strength on the chemical composition and irradi...

High-Alloy Ferritic Steels: Martensitic Stainless Steels, Precipitation Hardening (code 1810)

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EFFECT OF SILICON CONTENT ON THE STRAIN HARDENING OF DUAL-PHASE STEELS

Abstract: In the current work, the strain hardening behavior of dual-phase steels with different silicon content (0.34- 2.26 Wt. %) was examined using the modified Crussard-Jaoul analysis. It was shown that these dual-phase steels deform in two stages over a uniform strain range. Each stage exhibited a different strain hardening exponent varying with silicon content. At the first stage, work...