Source: Advanced Nitriding Solutions Blog
While salt baths and gas nitriding are time-tested methods for hardening, what about the stringent body depth, surface hardness and composite layer thickness requirements for gears, guides, and drilling tools?
In this Heat Treat Today Best of the Web feature, Advanced Nitriding Solutions shares the advantages of the surface hardening process of ion nitriding with plasma ions. While this surface hardening process is typically applied on steel, the process is both informative and relevant to other materials in the heat treating processes.
An excerpt: "...the fatigue strength is improved five to ten times from its typical “raw” life, depending on the material and the construction of the part. Thus the fatigue strength is improved without distortion compared to other surface treatment methods, thus saving customers money."
Read more: "The Advanced Nitriding Process – Enhance Fatigue Strength and Save Money"
