ENHANCING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LOW-CARBON STEEL BY GAS NITRIDING: ANALYSIS BY ANOVA

Corrosion is an unavoidable problem commonly occurs to any small articles, such as fasteners, nuts and bolts, or to industrial equipment and bridges in which the structural components are made up from carbon steel. Although low-carbon steels are produced in the largest amounts compared to other types of steels, low-carbon steels worn and corroded easily thus their useful lifetime was short. Therefore, an experimental research was conducted to improve the corrosion resistance and mechanical properties of low-carbon steel by gas nitriding. However, nitriding process is most likely to be affected by different nitriding parameters and variables. This study involves the nitriding process occurred at various factors which consist of temperature and duration.