Plasma Nitriding of Steels

Hossein Aghajani is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Materials Engineering- University of Tabriz, Iran. He holds three Iranian patents in active screen plasma nitriding and several research papers in the field. Sahand Behrangi holds a master degree from the University of Tabriz, Iran. His research interests are surface engineering and protection of ferrous and nonferrous alloys.

Introduction.- Conventional DC.- Pulsed DC.- RF.- Active screen.- Plasma nitriding methods.- Microstructure.- Mechanical properties.- Corrosion behavior.- Stainless steels (austenitic, martensitic and precipitation hardening stainless steels).- Tool steels.- Constructional and structural steels.- Microwave plasma nitriding.- Outlook.