Thermochemical Surface Engineering of Steels

Part One: Fundamentals

1. Thermodynamics and kinetics of gas and gas–solid reactions

2. Kinetics of thermochemical surface treatments

3. Process technologies for thermochemical surface engineering

Part Two: Improved materials performance

4. Fatigue resistance of carburized and nitrided steels

5. Tribological behaviour of thermochemically surface engineered steels

6. Corrosion behaviour of nitrided, nitrocarburised and carburised steels

Part Three: Nitriding, nitrocarburizing and carburizing

7. Nitriding of binary and ternary iron-based alloys

8. Development of the compound layer during nitriding and nitrocarburising of iron and iron-carbon alloys

9. Austenitic nitriding and nitrocarburizing of steels

10. Classical nitriding of heat treatable steel

11. Plasma-assisted nitriding and nitrocarburizing of steel and other ferrous alloys

12. ZeroFlow gas nitriding of steels

13. Carburizing of steels

Part Four: Low temperature carburizing and nitriding

14. Low temperature surface hardening of stainless steel

15. Gaseous processes for low temperature surface hardening of stainless steel

16. Plasma-assisted processes for surface hardening of stainless steel

17. Applications of low-temperature surface hardening of stainless steels

Part Five: Dedicated thermochemical surface engineering methods

18. Boriding to improve the mechanical properties and corrosion resistance of steels

19. The thermo-reactive deposition and diffusion process for coating steels to improve wear resistance

20. Sherardizing: corrosion protection of steels by zinc diffusion coatings

21. Aluminizing of steel to improve high temperature corrosion resistance

22. Duplex Treatment