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Carburizing and carbonitriding - Processes

Author: Claude LEROUX

Publication date: September 10, 2011 | Lire en français

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    8. Metallographic aspects of the resulting layers

    8.1 Case-hardening

    Leaving aside the case of bainitic case hardening, the aim of case hardening followed by quench hardening is to obtain a carbon-rich martensite surface on a core with a bainitic or low-carbon martensitic structure.

    In practice, a number of other constituents may be present in hardened and tempered layers :

    • residual austenite, a low-hardness constituent (≈ 150 HV), figure...

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