Abstract Stainless steel, Co-Cr and Ni-Cr alloys have played an important role in many
industrial sectors to combat environmental degradation. However, low hardness and poor …

Austenitic stainless steels are employed in many industrial fields, due to their excellent
corrosion resistance, easy formability and weldability. However, their low hardness, poor …

Low-temperature treatments have become a valuable method for improving the surface
hardness of stainless steels, and thus their tribological properties, without impairing their …

Low-temperature thermochemical treatments are particularly suitable for use in the surface
hardening of austenitic stainless steels without impairing their corrosion resistance. In fact …

Correlations between the grain orientations and elastic properties of plasma-nitrided
polycrystalline 316L austenitic stainless steel are investigated. The grain orientations (hkl) in …

Expanded austenite–austenitic stainless steel containing a colossal amount of nitrogen in
solid solution–is still some kind of conundrum with the nitrogen atom transport from the …

Low temperature plasma nitrocarburizing processes are widely used surface treatment
techniques to improve the surface hardness and wear resistance of stainless steels without …

Crystallographic structure and lattice rotation of the 'expanded'austenite produced by means
of low temperature plasma nitriding is investigated. The microstructure of the nitrogen …

Recent technological development of utilizing an active screen made of solid carbon for
plasma-assisted thermochemical diffusion treatments opens up new possibilities for control …

In the present study, the effect of surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) on corrosion
resistance and plasma nitriding behavior of AISI 304L stainless steel (SS) was investigated …