Characterization of Fe2B layers on ASTM A1011 steel and modeling of boron diffusion

Irving Morgado-González; Martin Ortiz-Dominguez; Mourad Keddam

doi:10.1515/mt-2021-2007

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Characterization of Fe₂B layers on ASTM A1011 steel and modeling of boron diffusion

Irving Morgado-González
Irving Morgado-González, born in 1989 in Tulancingo Hgo., received the degree of BSc and MSc in Mechatronics from the Polytechnic University of Pachuca in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He has published research papers in national and international journals, highlighting control, mechanical design, manufacturing of manipulator robots and materials science. In 2015, he made a research stay at the Université de Toulon (Var, France). He also served as head of mechanical design area for the private sector, developing the design of horizontal directional drilling machines, structural design, and complex mechanism design as well as finite element analysis. His areas of interest are modeling and control of mechanical systems, mechanism design and thermochemical treatments. He is currently a PhD student in Materials Science at the Academic Area of Earth and Materials Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.
, Martin Ortiz-Dominguez
Martin Ortiz-Dominguez is a full time researcher and lecturer at the Escuela Superior de Ciudad Sahagún-UAEH. He is a Mechanical Engineer with a specific interest in quantum information theory, nanotechnology, classical electrodynamics, surface engineering, tribology and processes that occur at interfaces as well as mechanical behaviour of metallic materials. His PhD in Mechanical Engineering is from National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico in 2013. He has published over 55 publications in the field of boriding process and classical electrodynamics. The research team counts for 12 researchers working on functional surfaces and computing modelling of engineering materials. He was awarded the National Research System level one by the National Science and Technology Council of Mexico (CONACyT) since 2013 up to date.
and Mourad Keddam
Mourad Keddam, born 1965, completed his graduate and doctorate studies at National Polytechnic School (El-Harrach, Algiers, Algeria). He works in thermochemical treatments and modeling of their kinetics and metallurgical phase transformations. He has published over 120 publications in the field of boriding and nitriding. He has been working in the Department of Materials Sciences at the university of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (Algiers, Algeria) since 2001. He is currently full professor at the same institution.

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Abstract

In this work, the ASTM A1011 steel substrate has been pack-boronized in the interval of 1123–1273 K for 2–8 h. With the used powders mixture (33.5 wt.% B₄C, 5.4 wt.% KBF₄ and 61.1 wt.% SiC), the iron boride layers were formed on this steel. The boronized layer/matrix was characterized by a jagged morphology. X-ray diffraction technique was used in order to identify the presence of iron boride phase. Tribological studies were also undertaken to assess the interfacial adherence of boride layer to the substrate and the values of coefficient of friction (COF) for borided and unborided samples. In addition, the mean diffusion coefficient approach was employed to estimate the diffusivity of boron in Fe₂B. Moreover, this diffusion model has been verified empirically by using an extra boriding condition (at 1248 K for 2 h).

Keywords: activation energy; boriding; iron boride; kinetics; tribology

Corresponding author: Mourad Keddam, SDM, USTHB, B.P. 32 El Alia Bab Ezzouar Algiers, Algiers 16000, Algeria, E-mail: mkeddam@usthb.dz

Funding source: PRDEP and CONACyT MÃ©xico

About the authors

Irving Morgado-González

Irving Morgado-González, born in 1989 in Tulancingo Hgo., received the degree of BSc and MSc in Mechatronics from the Polytechnic University of Pachuca in 2012 and 2016, respectively. He has published research papers in national and international journals, highlighting control, mechanical design, manufacturing of manipulator robots and materials science. In 2015, he made a research stay at the Université de Toulon (Var, France). He also served as head of mechanical design area for the private sector, developing the design of horizontal directional drilling machines, structural design, and complex mechanism design as well as finite element analysis. His areas of interest are modeling and control of mechanical systems, mechanism design and thermochemical treatments. He is currently a PhD student in Materials Science at the Academic Area of Earth and Materials Sciences of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.

Martin Ortiz-Dominguez

Martin Ortiz-Dominguez is a full time researcher and lecturer at the Escuela Superior de Ciudad Sahagún-UAEH. He is a Mechanical Engineer with a specific interest in quantum information theory, nanotechnology, classical electrodynamics, surface engineering, tribology and processes that occur at interfaces as well as mechanical behaviour of metallic materials. His PhD in Mechanical Engineering is from National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico in 2013. He has published over 55 publications in the field of boriding process and classical electrodynamics. The research team counts for 12 researchers working on functional surfaces and computing modelling of engineering materials. He was awarded the National Research System level one by the National Science and Technology Council of Mexico (CONACyT) since 2013 up to date.

Mourad Keddam

Mourad Keddam, born 1965, completed his graduate and doctorate studies at National Polytechnic School (El-Harrach, Algiers, Algeria). He works in thermochemical treatments and modeling of their kinetics and metallurgical phase transformations. He has published over 120 publications in the field of boriding and nitriding. He has been working in the Department of Materials Sciences at the university of Sciences and Technology Houari Boumediene (Algiers, Algeria) since 2001. He is currently full professor at the same institution.

Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: The work described in this paper was supported by a grant of PRDEP and CONACyT México (National Council of Science and Technology).
Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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activation energy; boriding; iron boride; kinetics; tribology