• 한국자기학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.79-84
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• 2012

나노크기의 물질이 가지는 새로운 특성을 응용하는 연구가 매우 활발하게 진행되어 지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 PAD법으로 제조한 ${\alpha}$-Fe 나노분말을 이용하여 높은 포화자화와 기계적인 경도, 화학적 안정성, 작은 입자로 인한 tape noise의 감소 등의 특성을 지니고 있는 질화철인 $Fe_4N$을 합성하고, 이를 환원/확산법과 $N_2$가스 질화법으로 합성한 $Fe_{17}Sm_2N_x$ 자성분말과 자성 특성을 비교하였다. $NH_3+H_2$(부피비 3 : 1) 혼합가스를 이용하였을 경우 $Fe_4N$의 생성 온도와 반응시간 등의 조건 변수를 통해 $400^{\circ}C$에서 4시간 동안 열처리함으로서 단일상의 $Fe_4N$이 생성되는 것을 관찰 할 수 있었으며, 나노크기의 $Fe_4N$ 분말과 마이크론 크기의 $Fe_{17}Sm_2N_x$ 분말의 포화자화의 값은 각각 149, 117 emu/g의 값을 나타내었다.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.258-267
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• 1998

For the purpose of investigating the growth characteristics and composition of nitrides, gas nitridings of the austenitic stainless steel, STR 36 heat resisting steel and martensitic stainless steel are investigated at the temperature ranges between $500^{\circ}C$ and $675^{\circ}C$ for 5hours under the $75%NH_3+5%CO_2+20%$Air gas atmosphere. When gas nitriding the austentic stainless steel and STR 36 heat resisting alloy, the abnormal growth behavior of compound layer deviating from the conventional diffusion law with increasing temperature appears, while the compound layer of martensitic stainless steel shows the normal diffusional growth behavior. From the examination of microstructure, X-ray diffraction and hardness test, it is concluded that the abnormal growth behavior of compound layer with increasing temperature induces from the formation and dissolution of CrN and ${\gamma}^{\prime}-Fe_4N$ at the nitriding temperature ranges of $600{\sim}650^{\circ}C$.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.27-39
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• 1989

The effect of gas mixing ratios during gas nitrocarburizing treatment on the formation of compound layer and the mechanical properties has been studied for hot work tool steel by using a combined heat treating technique. The thickness of compound and diffusion layers has been shown to grow as a parabolic relation with increasing the amount of ammonia at a given flow quantity of $CO_2$ gas. The compound layer consists mainly of ${\varepsilon}-Fe_3$(C, N) with small amounts of ${\gamma}^{\prime}-Fe_4N$ and ${\alpha}$-Fe. The combined heat treated hot work tool steel has shown that the thickness of compound layer increases with increasing nitrocarburizing time, but the rate of growth slows down as gas nitrocarburizing time goes more than two hours. Tensile properties have given a remarkable improvement. In particular, the wear resistance of combined heat treated hot work tool steel has exhibited an improvement of about 165% greater than that obtained from conventional quenching and multi-tempering treatments.

• 열처리공학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.215-223
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• 1992

This study has been performed to investigate into some effects of temperature, gas mixing ratio and time on the optical microstructure, hardness and wear characteristics of medium carbon alloy steel treated by plasma nitriding. The results obtained from the experiment are summarized as follows: (1) Optical micrographs of AISI 4140 steel plasma-nitrided by the double stage technique have revealed that the nitrided layer is composed of the compound layer and the diffusion layer. The variation in temperature at the first stage gives effects, on the formation of compound layer and the growth rate is shown to be relatively fast at $460^{\circ}C$. (2) The thickness of compound layer has been found to increase with increasing nitrogen percentage in the gas mixture and the holding time. It is therefore recommended that a shorter holding time and a lower nitrogen percentage are more effective to produce a tougher compound layer and a diffusion layer only. (3) X-ray diffraction analysis for AISI 4140 steel has shown that the compound layer consist of ${\gamma}^{\prime}-Fe_4N$ and ${\alpha}-Fe$ and that tough compound layer diffustion layer only can be obtained by the double stage plasmanitriding process. (4) There is also a tendency that the total hardened layer depth increases with increasing temperature, time and nitrogen percentage in the first stage during the double stage plasma nitriding. (5) The wear resistance of plasma nitrided specimens has been found thobe considerably increased compared to the untreated specimens and the amount of increment has appeared to increase further with increasing nitriding temperature, holding time and notrogen percentage of gas mixture in the first stage treatment.