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Materials Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2018

Subjects

Nodular iron, Boriding, Mechanical wear -- Testing, Surfaces (Technology)

Abstract

Samples of ductile cast irons alloyed with Cu, Cu-Ni and Cu-Ni-Mo were austempered, borided and boro-austempered and characterized for hardness and micro-adhesive wear behavior. The kinetics of layer formation was also studied. The boriding method used was molten borax bath, in periods of 2 and 4 hours at temperatures of 850, 900 and 950º C. The direct austempering treatment was performed immediately following the boriding treatment (from 850, 900 and 950º C) using molten salt baths at temperatures of 240, 300 and 360º C for 4 hours (boro-austempering treatment). For comparative purposes, the conventional austempering treatment was also conducted. Optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Brinell hardness measurements (on the substrate) and Vickers (on the layers) were performed, along with micro-adhesive wear tests. The boriding treatment resulted in the formation of high hardness layers, in the range of 1450 to 1750 HV, with high wear resistance. The wear resistance of borided and boro-austempered samples were increased by 40 times when compared to as cast or austempered samples, indicating the high efficiency of this type of treatment in increasing the wear resis tance of this material.

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Originally appeared in Materials Research. 2018; 21(5): e20170927, published by Associação Brasileira de Metalurgia e Materiais (ABM).

May be accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1980-5373-mr-2017-0927

Creative Commons License This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

DOI

10.1590/1980-5373-mr-2017-0927

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26163

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