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Energy losses owing to friction and excessive wear of the components are now thought to be the primary cause of failure. Reducing friction and controlling wear is a significant issue from the standpoints of both energy savings and environmental preservation. PVD hard coatings are well known for improving the characteristics of surfaces by reducing friction and increasing wear resistance. However, plastic deformation of the substrate frequently limits their performance. The introduction of duplex surface engineering, which involves treating substrates prior to coating, was a revolutionary way to improve subsurface qualities. A new attempt has been investigated in this work with respect to PVD coating on boronized surfaces to improve these properties. As a result, a thin layer of TiN coating was deposited on boronized samples of AISI 1045 and AISI 4142 steels. Although the TiN coating was considered to be the conventional coating, it was observed to have good compatibility with the boronized surface. The results of microhardness, micro abrasion wear, XRD, and micro-chemical analysis of the treated samples were assessed in this study. When comparing duplex-treated samples to untreated substrates, it was revealed that the duplex-treated samples had a considerable increase in hardness and wear performance. The XRD patterns verified the presence of cubic boron nitride phases, which are responsible for the steels’ enhanced hardness and wear resistance.
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Vaishnavi, B., Adhiyamaan, A., Gabriel, D.J.H., Chandrasekar, V.K. (2023). Wear and Hardness Behavior of Duplex-Treated AISI 1045 and AISI 4142 Steels. In: Bhattacharyya, B., Mathew, J., Saravanakumar, N., Rajeshkumar, G. (eds) Advances in Micro and Nano Manufacturing and Surface Engineering. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4571-7_21
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