EP0018263B1 - Procédé de chromisation de pièces d'acier et pièces d'acier chromisées - Google Patents

Procédé de chromisation de pièces d'acier et pièces d'acier chromisées Download PDF

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EP0018263B1
EP0018263B1 EP80400451A EP80400451A EP0018263B1 EP 0018263 B1 EP0018263 B1 EP 0018263B1 EP 80400451 A EP80400451 A EP 80400451A EP 80400451 A EP80400451 A EP 80400451A EP 0018263 B1 EP0018263 B1 EP 0018263B1
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    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
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    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
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    • C23C10/02—Pretreatment of the material to be coated
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C23—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT; DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL; INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION IN GENERAL
    • C23C—COATING METALLIC MATERIAL; COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL; SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL BY DIFFUSION INTO THE SURFACE, BY CHEMICAL CONVERSION OR SUBSTITUTION; COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATION OR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL
    • C23C8/00—Solid state diffusion of only non-metal elements into metallic material surfaces; Chemical surface treatment of metallic material by reaction of the surface with a reactive gas, leaving reaction products of surface material in the coating, e.g. conversion coatings, passivation of metals
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T428/12535—Composite; i.e., plural, adjacent, spatially distinct metal components [e.g., layers, joint, etc.] with additional, spatially distinct nonmetal component
    • Y10T428/12576—Boride, carbide or nitride component
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    • Y10T428/12847—Cr-base component
    • Y10T428/12854—Next to Co-, Fe-, or Ni-base component

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  • the present invention relates to a method for chromizing steel parts, of the type according to which chromium is diffused in order to obtain a surface layer of chromium and according to which the chromium contribution is obtained by decomposition in the gas phase d halides, the decomposition of the halide and the diffusion of chromium in the steel being carried out simultaneously by heating the parts to temperatures not exceeding 1300 ° C, in the halide atmosphere, the operation of actual chromization being preceded by a surface nitrogen addition operation.
  • the actual chromization is known, for example, from the work of Doctor GAL-MICHE and from the French patents ONERA n ° 1 012 401 and their two additions 60 539 and 60686.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose a hard chromization process of the aforementioned type and making it possible to produce steel parts having a hard chromized surface layer comprising carbo-nitrides, a layer having a thickness greater than at least 20 ⁇ m, preferably 30 ⁇ m, and a fine grain undercoat with little or no decarburization.
  • This object is achieved by the fact that prior to the actual chromizing operation, the introduction of nitrogen into the surface layer of the steel part is made so that the nitrogen surface layer has a content greater than 0 , 8% nitrogen over a depth or thickness at least equal to 0.5 mm.
  • the surface introduction of nitrogen is carried out by heating the part to be treated at a temperature between 400 and 800 ° C and in any case at a temperature below the lower critical point of the treated steel, and during the times between 12 and 150 hours in a nitrogen generating medium which, by way of example may consist of molten nitrous salts, ammonia or nitrogen gases, ionized or not.
  • the invention obtains after the actual chromizing operation of the hard chromized layers comprising carbonitrides instead of separate carbides and / or separate nitrides, these layers being of a thickness greater than at least 20 ⁇ m and having a high resistance to wear.
  • the presence of nitrogen in the surface layers of the steel parts makes it possible to achieve a different balance of the chromium and carbon elements with respect to the base steel during the chromization reaction, this different balance thus allowing to obtain much deeper chromized surface layers without producing significantly decarburized undercoats and without enlarging the grain as an undercoat.
  • nitrogenous surface layers previously containing more than 0.8% nitrogen over a depth at least equal to 0.5 mm.
  • nitrogenous surface layers are prepared having a nitrogen content of between 1 and 2% over a depth of 0.5 to 1.0 mm.
  • Such satisfactory nitrogenous layers can be obtained by treatment cycles in an ammonia atmosphere of 24 hours at 700 ° C. or 90 hours at 560 ° C.
  • the chromium halide atmosphere conforms to the already known technique
  • the temperature and holding time parameters can be conformed to the already known technique, but they can also be modified according to the prior introduction of nitrogen; compared to what they would be on the same steel not "activated in accordance with the present invention.
  • the chromization temperatures can be reduced in order to limit the magnification of the grains of the undercoat.
  • the steel parts may preferably undergo a regenerative heat treatment in order to reduce the grain sizes and improve the resilience of the base steel.
  • the comparison drawing shows the comparison of the chromized layers obtained on the same steel grade 32 CDV 13 (AFNOR) by known chromization techniques without or with prior activation by nitrogen and in the three cases followed by a heat treatment of grain regeneration by heating under vacuum, quenching and tempering.
  • AFNOR chromization technique
  • FIG. 1 is a micro-hardness diagram showing for the steel grade 32 CDV 13 (AFNOR) three examples of chromized steel parts and, FIGS. 2 to 4 show microphotos of the surface layer and of the adjacent undercoat of these three examples of chrome-plated steel parts, the enlargement factor in all three cases being 200.
  • AFNOR steel grade 32 CDV 13
  • FIGS. 2 to 4 show microphotos of the surface layer and of the adjacent undercoat of these three examples of chrome-plated steel parts, the enlargement factor in all three cases being 200.
  • the curve has a solid line represents the hardness of a piece of steel in Vickers degrees as a function of the depth of the level considered.
  • This piece of steel, the transverse structure of which is illustrated in FIG. 2 has not been subjected to prior activation by nitrogen, but only a chromium-plating operation of 12 hours at 940 ° C.
  • the chromized surface layer 1 has a depth or thickness of 12 ⁇ m and has a Vickers hardness greater than 1,500 points and reaching more than 1,800 points.
  • a sub-layer 2 whose Vickers hardness decreases rapidly to a minimum value of 260 and then slowly rises to Vickers hardness at the heart of the steel part, hardness which is of the order of 350 and is reached at a depth of 77 ⁇ m.
  • this sublayer or decarburization zone 2 is of the order of 65 ⁇ m which is more than 5 times the thickness of the chromized surface layer 1 and the minimum hardness of the sublayer 2 is only about 3/4 of the Vickers hardness at the heart of the steel part.
  • the decrease in the hardness of the underlay compared to that of the core of the steel part clearly shows the extent of the decarburized zone and the harmful influence of the inevitable carbon pumping during the known chromization operation. It is also noted from FIG. 2 that the size of the grain in the sub-layer is significant (Afnor index 4).
  • Curve b of FIG. 1 shows the hardness of a piece of steel of the same aforementioned grade without activation with nitrogen, subjected to a chromization operation also for 12 hours, but at a higher temperature, namely 980 ° C.
  • This increase in temperature brings the depth of the chromized surface layer 1 to 16 ⁇ m, but on the other hand the corresponding structure illustrated in FIG. 3 shows an even larger and unfavorable grain size (Afnor index 3) than that of the structure shown. in FIG.
  • the microdurethane diagram shows at the bottom of curve b between a depth of 16 ⁇ m and 85 ⁇ m (sublayer 2) an even deeper and more intense decarburization zone (minimum Vickers hardness 240 points) than that of the example of curve a and of FIG. 2.
  • the Vickers hardness of the underlay 2 is of the order of 2/3 of the Vickers hardness at the heart of the steel piece and the layer 2 with its decarburized zone has a thickness at least four times greater than that of the chromized surface layer 1.
  • Curve c of FIG. 1 corresponds to a piece of steel having undergone prior activation by the surface introduction of nitrogen in accordance with the present invention (treatment cycle of 90 hours at 560 ° C.).
  • This curve c in FIG. 1 shows the Vickers hardness of a piece of steel of the same grade as the previous examples, but is obtained after the same chromization cycle as the example of curve a, that is 12 hours at 940 ° C.
  • the chromized layer 1 has a depth of 50 wm.
  • the structure illustrated in FIG. 4 also shows the fineness of the grain obtained in the sub-layer 2 over a depth of 1 mm and the diagram of microduretures (FIG. 1) shows for the curve c a much less thick decarburization zone (20 to 30 Jlm) and less intense (minimum Vickers hardness around 330 points) than in the two previous examples.
  • the thickness of the decarburized zone is very small, is less than that of the chromized layer 1 and is only approximately equal to half that of said chromized layer 1.
  • the hardness of the decarburized zone of the underlayer 2 it is at least equal to about 95% of the hardness of the core of the steel piece.
  • the loss of hardness in the underlay with respect to the base steel at the heart of the steel part is less than 25 Vickers points and affects a weakly decarburized zone with a thickness of less than 25 ⁇ m.
  • carbon-containing steel intended for hard chromium plating has a surface layer containing at least 0.8% nitrogen over a depth greater than 0.5 mm. It has been found that to the extent that the nitrogen content of the surface layer before chromization exceeds 0.8% over a depth of 0.5 mm, there is found after said chromization in the sublayer a residual nitrogen content greater than 0.4% over a depth greater than 0.5 mm, this nitrogen content preventing significant decarburization and significant enlargement of the grain of the undercoat.
  • the nitrogen content of the surface layer of the steel is, before chromization, greater than 0.8% over a depth greater than 0.5 mm, after said chromization is found in the chromized surface layer the presence of chromium carbonitrides with a nitrogen content greater than 2%.
  • the invention relates not only to the new hard chromizing process, but also to the pieces of steel chromized according to the present process and having a hard chromized surface layer with a depth at least equal to 20 ⁇ m and having a Vickers hardness at least equal. at 1,200 points.

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