Demand for higher wear and corrosion resistance components has attracted increasing
interest in surface engineering. This line of research develops alternative processes for …

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

In the present work, the influence of the pulse voltage and pressure on the treatment glow
discharge characteristics and consequently on the surface properties obtained for low …

Low-temperature plasma assisted nitriding is a very promising technique to improve surface
mechanical properties of stainless steels, keeping unaltered or even improving their surface …

This work studied the cyclic spherical contact behavior of plasma nitrided (N) and
nitrocarburized (NC) AISI 321 steel. The temperature and exposition time were 400 and …

In the present work, LaFeO 3 film prepared by the sol-gel method was applied to realize the
catalytic plasma nitriding for 38CrMoAl steel. The plasma nitriding treatments were …

Increasing the mechanical strength of stainless steel is fundamental to expanding its
applications and extending its useful life, especially due to its impressive corrosion …

This work reports an experimental investigation on the thermodynamic and kinetic view-
point of the nitrided layer growth behavior, carried out separately at ferrite and austenite …

Plasma technology used to perform thermochemical treatments is well established for the
majority of steels, but it is not the case for the different stainless steel classes. Thus …

The surface microstructural evolution of AISI 304 L stainless steel oxy-nitrocarburized using
a cyanide-free salt bath based on the eutectic composition of the system NaCNO-Na 2 CO 3 …