Mechanical Behavior for

Plasma Nitriding of Duplex

Stainless Steel
By
M.Sc. Student: Laith Halim Abdalhussain
Supervisor: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ali Sabea Hammood
At the Department of Materials Engineering / Faculty of
Engineering / University of Kufa, Iraq, Najaf.
Duplex stainless steel
 The duplex structure gives this family of stainless steels
a combination of attractive properties:

• Strength:

• Toughness and ductility:

• Corrosion resistance:
• Stress corrosion cracking resistance:

• Cost:
Plasma Nitriding
Parts of a Plasma Nitriding System
Fig.2 Parts of a typical plasma nitriding system
Mechanism of Plasma Nitriding
Fig.3 The proposed
mechanism for plasma
nitriding
Parameters

Gas Mixture:
Temperature:
Advantages and Disadvantages of Plasma Nitriding
there are also some problems for plasma nitriding
method. Some of them are as follows:
Effect of Temperature
on the
Plasma Nitriding
of
Duplex Stainless Steels
Fig.4 SEMmicrographs of the surface after plasma nitriding
at different temperatures
RESULTS
Surface Roughness
Fig.5 Effect of plasma nitriding temperature on surface roughness
(Ra in μm)
Surface Hardness & Cross Sectional Hardness
Fig.6 Effect of plasma nitriding temperature on Fig.7 Nano-indentation hardness as a function of case depth
surface hardness (HV) of plasma nitrided samples at different temperatures.
 Effect of atmosphere
proportion and nitriding
time on plasma nitriding of
duplex stainless steel
Experiments
Results
Microstructure:

Fig.8 The microstructure of sample D

Hardness:
Fig.9 The surface hardness of the nitrided at different parameters
 Fig.(10a) The hardness of the nitride layer
for sample (A, B, C)

Fig.(10a) The hardness of the nitride layer Fig.(10b) The hardness of the nitride layer
for sample (A, B, C) for sample (A, D, E)
Electrochemical tests:

Fig.11 Polarization curves of untreated and plasma nitrided steel

Conclusions
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