To modify the surface structure of AISI 1005 steel and its properties without any dimensional loss, different plasma surface treatments were performed at low temperatures (500 °C) in this study. The samples were subjected to single plasma treatments including: nitriding (N5% and N3%), carburizing (CE) and ferritic nitrocarburizing (NC) and to duplex treatments of nitriding followed by carburizing (N5%+CE and N3%+CE) and ferritic nitrocarburizing followed by carburizing (NC+CE). The gas mixture used for these treatments was varied as follows: nitriding (5%N2+95%H2 and 3%N2+97%H2), carburizing (5%CH4+95%H2) and ferritic nitrocarburizing (5%N2+1.5%CH4+93.5%H2). A microstructural characterization of the samples was carried out using optical and scanning electron microscopy in addition to XRD analysis. Microhardness testing was also performed. The XRD analysis showed a stabilization of the outermost cementite layer for all of the carburizing treatments. The results show that a greater hardness increase was achieved for the nitriding treatment as well as a more regular compound layer. However, a greater depth of hardening was obtained in samples with NC+CE and N5%+CE, which extended to the hardened depth to 800 μm.
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Damin, K. V. S., De Souza Lamim, T., Neto, F. C., Binder, C., Klein, A. N., & Maliska, A. M. (2016). AISI 1005 steel plasma treated by different thermochemical surface treatments. Materials Research, 19(5), 1049–1056. https://doi.org/10.1590/1980-5373-MR-2015-0594
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