Effect of prior heat treatment on nitride-layer formation and the properties of steel 30KhGSA

Conclusions Hardening from the intercritical temperature range for steel 30KhGSA followed by nitriding in a glow discharge provides high hardness and a nitride-layer thickness combined with a low tendency of the base toward brittle fracture.Central Scientific Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy, Sverdlovsk. Translated from Metallovedenie i Termicheskaya Obrabotka Metallov, No. 2, pp. 29–30, February, 1991.