DECREASING HEAT TREATMENT COST OF SURFACE HARDENED MACHINE PARTS BY CASE CARBURIZATION

Abstract

Machine parts are surface hardened to increase fatigue strength and wear resistance. Carburization is the most common surface hardening process in practice. In order to have optimum properties, a machine part must have certain hardness depth. To obtain required hardness depth, the parts must be kept in a carburizing medium at certain temperature for certain time. As the time and temperature is increased hardness depth increases. In practice, carburization temperature is about 930 °C. Machine parts are kept at this temperature for required time depending on required hardness depth. The increase of temperature reduces treatment time, considerably. But, heat treaters do not tend to use high temperatures due to the concern of distortion of parts, and deterioration of mechanical properties. In this study, the increase of temperature for reducing carburization time in salt bath, and consequently change of mechanical properties have been investigated using DIN C20 case carburization steel. As a result of experiments, it was found that mechanical properties were not effected negatively.

Keywords

• Isıl işlemler, Karbürizasyon, Tane büyüklüğü, Yorulma dayanımı, Sertlik derinliği