High Frequency Surface Hardening (I)

SURFACE HARDENING OF TUNGSTEN-BASED HEAVY ALLOY VIA PACK BORONIZING

The boronizing of a tungsten heavy alloy containing Ni and Fe as the major alloying elements were performed in the present study to increase its surface hardening. Pack cementation method was employed as a well-known, successful solid-state process for boronizing. The coating treatment was accomplished at different temperatures of 1000, 1050 and 1100°C for 6 and 9 hours. The formation of tu...

High-order high-frequency solutions of rough surface scattering problems

[1] A new method is introduced for the solution of problems of scattering by rough surfaces in the high-frequency regime. It is shown that high-order summations of expansions in inverse powers of the wave number can be used within an integral equation framework to produce highly accurate results for surfaces and wavelengths of interest in applications. Our algorithm is based on systematic use a...

Secondary Hardening in High Speed Steels

Experimental Design and Performance Analysis in Plasma Arc Surface Hardening

In this paper, the experimental design of using the Taguchi method is employed to optimize the processing parameters in the plasma arc surface hardening process. The processing parameters evaluated are arc current, scanning velocity and carbon content of steel. In addition, other significant effects such as the relation between processing parameters are also investigated. An orthogonal array, s...

On the Optimal Control Problem of Laser Surface Hardening

We discuss an optimal control problem of laser surface hardening of steel which is governed by a dynamical system consisting of a semilinear parabolic equation and an ordinary differential equation with a non differentiable right hand side function f+. To avoid the numerical and analytic difficulties posed by f+, it is regularized using a monotone Heaviside function and the regularized problem ...