Manufacturing Technology 2023, 23(5):630-637 | DOI: 10.21062/mft.2023.069

The Influence of Industrial-Scale Pack-Boroding Process Time on Thickness and Phase Composition of Selected Cold-Work Tool Steels

Jakub Jopek ORCID...1, Marek Góral ORCID...1, Barbara Koscielniak ORCID...1, Kamil Ochal ORCID...1, Marcin Drajewicz ORCID...1, Magdalena Mokrzycka ORCID...1, Tadeusz Kubaszek ORCID...1, Kamil Dychton ORCID...1, Kamil Gancarczyk ORCID...1, Andrzej Gradzik ORCID...1, Pawel Kwasniewski ORCID...2, Wojciech Gluchowski ORCID...3
1 Research and Development Laboratory for Aerospace Materials, Rzeszow University of Technology, Powstan-cow Warszawy 12, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
2 AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Non-Ferrous Metals, Adama Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Cracow, Poland
3 Lukasiewicz Research Network - Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Józefa Sowińskiego 5, 44-121 Gliwice, Poland

The boride coatings are characterized by attractive set of properties such as high hardness and wear resistance, corrosion resistance in higher temperatures and no wettability by liquid metals like alumi-num and zinc. This type of coating might be used for manufacturing of different parts from tool steels. In present article the influence of pack boriding time (2,4,6h) on microstructure and phase composition of obtained coatings is scrutinized. The pack boriding process was conducted on two groups of cold work tool steels: low-Cr content: 145Cr6, 90MnCrV8, 60WCrV8 and high-Cr content: X165CrV12, X153CrMoV12. The commercial boriding pack Ekabor 2 was utilized and the process was carried out using industrial CVD device (Bernex BPX Pro 325S). The conducted research showed that the boride coatings formed on the substrate of high-chromium steels were characterized by a lower total thick-ness. On low-chromium steels, FeB phase was discontinuous as an irregular islands located in the near-surface area. On the other hand, for high-chromium steels, a continuous layer of needle-like borides was formed.

Keywords: Boride coatings, Pack boriding, FeB, Fe2B, Tool steel
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The research was financially supported by National Research and Development Centre under grant no. TECHMATSTRATEG-III/0002/2019

Received: May 16, 2023; Revised: July 12, 2023; Accepted: September 1, 2023; Prepublished online: September 15, 2023; Published: December 6, 2023  Show citation

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Jopek J, Góral M, Koscielniak B, Ochal K, Drajewicz M, Mokrzycka M, et al.. The Influence of Industrial-Scale Pack-Boroding Process Time on Thickness and Phase Composition of Selected Cold-Work Tool Steels. Manufacturing Technology. 2023;23(5):630-637. doi: 10.21062/mft.2023.069.
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