Caracterización de la reacción de oxidación superficial y su influencia sobre la absorción de radiación durante el proceso de temple superficial con láser para el acero 42CrMo4

摘要

Surface laser hardening of steel is a process that produces an enormous interest due to its uncountable advantages in terms of quality and productivity against induction hardening The effective implantation of this process, nevertheless, is been hampered because of the lack of reliable and flexible predictive tools. There are different models focused on the temperature calculation, thought, few make a thorough analysis of the surface oxidation associated with the process and its important implications over the absorption coefficient. This work proposes and explains a coupled model temperature/ oxidation available in literature, applied, for the first time, for the simulation of simple processes carried out with different conditions of power and speed, for the 42CrMo4 steel. These conditions have been reproduced experimentally, tracking the maximum surface temperature and the oxide thickness. Both results have shown a high degree of coincidence whit theoretical predictions, confirming the capabilities and utility of the model.