Bogusław Bożek1, Lucjan Sapa1,*, Katarzyna Tkacz-Śmiech2, Marek Danielewski2, Janusz Rybak2
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.130, No.2, pp. 777-803, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2022.017729
- 13 December 2021
Abstract Low-temperature nitriding of steel or iron can produce an expanded austenite phase, which is a solid solution of a large amount of nitrogen dissolved interstitially in fcc lattice. It is characteristic that the nitogen depth profiles in expanded austenite exhibit plateau-type shapes. Such behavior cannot be considered with a standard analytic solution for diffusion in a semi-infinite solid and a new approach is necessary. We formulate a model of interdiffusion in viscoelastic solid (Maxwell model) during the nitriding process. It combines the mass conservation and Vegard’s rule with the Darken bi-velocity method. The model is formulated More >