In many areas of the thermochemical heat treatment of steel, carbonitriding has proven itself as a process for highly stressed components, especially for components that are subject to overrolling or comparable loads. In the past, carbonitriding was mainly used to increase the hardness and hardenability of unalloyed steels.

Newly developed gas carbonitriding processes now enable the targeted adjustment of combined carbon and nitrogen profiles in the workpiece surface layer. The advantage of these new processes and their control is that high carbonitride and retained austenite contents can be set in a targeted manner, which far exceeds the usual level of retained austenite and precipitations. The seminar is intended to provide users from the field of heat treatment and quality assurance, as well as designers, with examples of the treatment of case-hardened steels by carbonitriding in theory and practice. It will show how the heat treatment and atmosphere parameters affect the properties of components and how these should be set and controlled. Furthermore, the required plant technology and practical experience in the application of carbonitriding will be reported on.

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