The wear of alternatives to low temperature nitriding steel treatments under different wear processes (TM-LUB-2)

In the railway environment many exposed applications are subject to abrasion (from the ballast and brakeblock dust), fretting (from vehicle vibrations) and corrosion (from rainwater etc). Currently a traditional cyanide case hardening process is applied to many exposed pins and bushes. On the basis of laboratory investigations and results from...