As a common material in mould and die application, AISI D2 cold work tool steel has proven
to be a promising chosen material in the industries. However, challenges remain in using …

A bilayer CrC/CrN coating prepared on 304 stainless steels (304SS) using reactive radio
frequency magnetron sputtering technique (RF-MS) is investigated in acidic fuel cell …

AISI D2 tool steels are widely applicable in dies or tools manufacturing. Unfortunately, their
use is drastically reduced due to short lifetime. Plasma nitriding without formation of white …

Nitriding, as one of the most widely used surface treatment, was often applied in order to
improve the hardness, fatigue strength as well as wear and corrosion resistance of steels …

This study examined the effects of substrate preheating for the hardfacing of cold-press dies
using the high-speed tool steel AISI M4. The preheating of the substrate is a widely used …

Several process variants of plasma nitriding can be distinguished depending on the location
of the voltage introduction. The aim of this study is to compare three different variants of …

Gas nitriding, together with gas carburizing and gas carbonitriding, was the most commonly
used thermochemical treatment, resulting in many advantageous properties: high hardness …

In this research the effect of quench-tempering conditions prior to industrial gas nitriding on
the microstructure, fretting wear behavior and mechanism of nitrided X210CrW12 steel was …

Materials used in abrasive wear conditions are usually selected according to their
microstructure and hardness, however, other factors such as grain size, matrix saturation …

Fretting wear tests were performed to examine the evolution of fretting wear damage of the
nitrided high-carbon high-chromium X210CrW12 steel against GCr15 steel ball, and to …