Effect of Rare Earth Elements on the Impact Wear Resistance of Nitrocarburizing Layers

摘要

In this paper the effect of rare earth elements on the toughness and impact wear resistance of nitrocarburiz-ing layers is studied.The experimental results show that the toughness and impact wear resistance ofRE-nitrocarburizing layers are increased significantly compared with that of conventional nitrocarburizing lay-ers.The service life of hot die for manufacturing bicycle bolts increased more than 100%.The impact wearmechanism of RE-nitrocarburizing layers is investigated by SEM as well.