Generally, low carbon steel or mild steels contain 0.15% to 0.3% Carbon and do not respond to hardening heat treatment processes like quenching and tempering. Thus hardly any martensite is formed on quenching. Thus, to improve the surface hardness and wear resistance several casehardening methods like carburizing, nitriding, carbonitriding and cyaniding are normally used. Carburizing is the most common treatment among them in which the surface composition of the low carbon steel changes by diffusion of carbon and results in to hard outer case with good wear resistance. On the other hand,...
Generally, low carbon steel or mild steels contain 0.15% to 0.3% Carbon and do not respond to hardening heat treatment processes like quenching and te...
