Abstract
Structural and phase changes in the surface diffusion layer during gas nitriding of steel were studied, with the formation of a crystallographic structure of the nitride layer for subsequent oxidation in water vapor. The conditions for forming carbides and nitrocarbides with simultaneous diffusion of nitrogen and decarburization of the steel matrix are determined depending on the nitrogen potential of the saturating medium.
The structural-phase states of the surface diffusion layer with a stepwise change in the nitrogen potential during nitriding at the first stage and followed by oxidation at the second stage, the formation of a surface oxide layer, as well as the conditions for participation in mutual diffusion processes of carbon in the nitride layer, decarburized from the steel matrix with the formation compositions of modified nitride phases.
The nitride-oxide layer’s corrosion properties and gradient properties in various structural-phase states of nitride phase compositions have been studied.
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