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PROCESSES
IN GEAR DESIGN
Prepared By:- Kartik Thakkar
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Heat Treatment
Processes
Through Hardening
CASE HARDENING
Case Hardening produces a hard, wear resistance
case or surface layer on the top of a ductile, shock
resistance interior or core.
The idea behind the case hardening is to keep the
core of the gear tooth at a level around 30 to 40 HRC
to avoid tooth breakage while hardening the outer
surface to increase the pitting resistance
Case hardening consists of three processes:
(a) Carburizing;
(b)Nitriding;
(c) Carbo-Nitriding.
CARBURIZING
Carburizing is a heat treatment process in which iron or steel
is heated in the presence of another material which liberates
carbon as it decomposes, at temperature between 850 and
950C, at which austenite, with its high solubility for carbon,
is the stable crystal structure. Hardening is accomplished when
the high-carbon surface layer is quenched to form Martensite so
that a high-carbon martensitic case with good wear and fatigue
resistance is superimposed on a tough, low-carbon steel core.
Gears are almost always oil quenched because
distortion must be held to the lowest possible level.
After case hardening, the hardness obtained lies in the
range HRC 58 to 62 but in heavily loaded gears a minimum
of HRC 60 is required.
NITRIDING
Nitriding is a surface-hardening heat treatment that
introduces nitrogen into the surface of steel at a
temperature range of 500 to 550C, while it is in the
ferrite condition.
Because nitriding does not involve heating into the
austenite phase field and a subsequent quench to form
martensite, nitriding can be accomplished with a minimum
of distortion and with excellent dimensional control.
Nitriding is done to to obtain high surface hardness,
increase wear resistance, improve fatigue life, improve
corrosion resistance (except for stainless steels), obtain a
surface that is resistant to the softening effect of heat at
temperatures up to the nitriding temperature.
Carbo-Nitriding
Surface Hardening
Induction Hardening
Induction Hardening Of
Gears
Flame Hardening
By :- Kartik Thakkar
website:- http://steps2learning.blogspot.com