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Improving by postoxidation of corrosion resistance of plasma nitrocarburized AISI 316 stainless steels

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Austenitic stainless steels are widely used in several industries such as chemistry, food, health and space due to their perfect corrosion resistance. However, in addition to corrosion resistance, the mechanic and tribological features such as wear resistance and friction are required to be good in the production and engineering of this type of machines, equipment and mechanic parts. In this study, ferritic (FNC) and austenitic (ANC) nitrocarburizing were applied on AISI 316 stainless steel specimens with perfect corrosion resistance in the plasma environment at the definite time (4 h) and constant gas mixture atmosphere. In order to recover corrosion resistance which was deteriorated after nitrocarburizing again, plasma postoxidation process (45 min) was applied. After the duplex treatment, the specimens’ structural analyses with XRD and SEM methods, corrosion analysis with polarization method and surface hardness with microhardness method were examined. At the end of the studies, AISI 316 surface hardness of stainless steel increased with nitrocarburizing process, but the corrosion resistance was deteriorated with FNC (570 °C) and ANC (670 °C) nitrocarburizing. With the following of the postoxidation treatment, it was detected that the corrosion resistance became better and it approached its value before the process.

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This research has been supported by Atatürk University, Research Found by Grant No. 2009/67.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Atatürk University, 25240, Erzurum, Turkey

    A. Yenilmez & M. Karakan

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Gümüşhane University, 29100, Gümüşhane, Turkey

    İ. Çelik

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Yenilmez, A., Karakan, M. & Çelik, İ. Improving by postoxidation of corrosion resistance of plasma nitrocarburized AISI 316 stainless steels. Appl. Phys. A 123, 9 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-016-0599-1

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