Evaluation of Structural and Mechanical Properties of the Nitrided Layer on Steel for Weapons

Nitriding is a technology that leads to an increase in the utility value of product. It’s most im-portant benefits include increased corrosion resistance, abrasion wear resistance fatigue failure under cyclic loading, and many others. The design suitable nitriding not only on basis empirics requires closer study relationship between structure layer, its properties course particular degradation process. Be-cause life components related surface, occurrence cracks effects, it crucial influence mechanical other this sur-face area. High functional requirements are placed surfaces steels for weapons production, which lead long service life, reliability dependability weapon system safe use. paper discuss selected technologies steel 42CrMo4 34CrNiMo6, especially hard microhard-ness surface layers, change next texture dimension component. were nitrided plasma gas. gas led more significant struc-tural changes layer both compared nitriding.