Axial fatigue of a gas-nitrided quenched and tempered AISI 4140 steel: Effect of nitriding depth

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 811-820

  Limodin, N ^a   Verreman, Y ^a   Tarfa, T N ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Nitrex Metal Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Fish eye' cracks; 4140 steel; Compressive residual stresses; Fatigue life improvement; Gas nitriding; Nitriding depth

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; HARDNESS; LOADING; NITRIDING; QUENCHING; RESIDUAL STRESSES; TEMPERING;

AXIAL FATIGUE; NITRIDING DEPTH; SURFACE CRACKING;

STEEL;

EID: 0141842673     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.2003.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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