Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties

Mohamed Ali Terres; Brahim Ben Fathallah; Abdelkarim Ghanem

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Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties

Mohamed Ali Terres, Brahim Ben Fathallah, Abdelkarim Ghanem

Published in American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 1)

Received: 12 August 2016 Accepted: 25 August 2016 Published: 4 January 2017

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Abstract

In this work the 42CrMo4 steel ground surface integrity was evaluated at different grinding conditions before and after nitriding. An experimental study was carried out to investigate the influence of depth of cut on work piece surface integrity by grinding. Surface integrity was characterized by roughness, micro-hardness, residual stress distribution and ground surface morphology. These properties were compared to nitriding state. These improvements in grindability and in surface integrity are particularly favoured by low depth of cut values. It is also shown that these improvements are essentially due to the reduction of the grinding temperature, which decrease the tensile residual stresses and favours the material removal by shearing and limits the ground surface damage. The roughness of the ground work piece surfaces increases with the depth of cut, which was attributed to plastically deformed coatings on the work piece surface occurring with elevated temperature. The results presented in this study shows that the material history before nitriding does not have any influence on the residual stresses distribution after nitriding. This is due to that during the nitriding treatment, especially in the heating phase; the tensile stresses generated by grinding are cancelled under the temperature effect.

Published in	American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (Volume 2, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.17
Page(s)	41-47
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Grinding, Nitriding, Surface Defects, Surface Roughness, Residual Stress, Work Hardening

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Mohamed Ali Terres, Brahim Ben Fathallah, Abdelkarim Ghanem. (2017). Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties. American Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 2(1), 41-47. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.17

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Mohamed Ali Terres; Brahim Ben Fathallah; Abdelkarim Ghanem. Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties. Am. J. Mech. Ind. Eng. 2017, 2(1), 41-47. doi: 10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.17

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Mohamed Ali Terres, Brahim Ben Fathallah, Abdelkarim Ghanem. Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties. Am J Mech Ind Eng. 2017;2(1):41-47. doi: 10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.17

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Mohamed Ali Terres

Laboratory Mechanics, Materials and Processes (LMMP) ENSIT, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Brahim Ben Fathallah

Laboratory Mechanics, Materials and Processes (LMMP) ENSIT, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
Abdelkarim Ghanem

Laboratory Mechanics, Materials and Processes (LMMP) ENSIT, University of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

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Mohamed Ali Terres, Brahim Ben Fathallah, Abdelkarim Ghanem. Effects of Surface Pre-treatment on the Nitrided Layers Properties. Am J Mech Ind Eng. 2017;2(1):41-47. doi: 10.11648/j.ajmie.20170201.17

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