Helped the laser. In the Russian Federation came up with how to make steel stronger

Scientists from Krasnoyarsk and Moscow have developed a technology to increase the hardness and wear resistance of steel products, reports Taiga.Info.

Surface reinforcement of steel allows to increase the strength of parts working in conditions of wear of machines and tools. The technology can be improved by using nanocarbon materials such as fullerene, graphene or nanocarbon tubes, and a laser for surface treatment, the newspaper writes with reference to the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS.

“Scientists have chosen carbon black as nanomaterial, which is obtained by the production of fullerenes in an arc discharge with graphite electrodes. After laser treatment, the hardness of iron coated with nanostructured carbon increased by more than five times compared with the most common industrial steel. The coefficient of friction of the reinforced material was 20 – 30% lower than that of the original samples, ”the report says.

The hardness and wear resistance of steels, especially those containing carbon, nitrogen or boron compounds, are significantly improved after laser treatment. In addition, laser heating does not cause deformation of the products, which reduces the technological process, since there is no need for additional processing of metal products,

told researcher Alexander Eletsky.

Employees of the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, NRU MEI and the Moscow Automobile and Road State Technical University (MADI) took part in the study.

Comments

[Nasrat]

Unified generation ... what to take from them ..

[Nicholas C.]

Quote: Nasr

Unified generation ... what to take from them ..

It's like that. This generation would write jokes, not news.
Surface hardening, alloying, hardening, surfacing, other types of surface modification ...
A special laser for this with an even distribution of power in the spot.
These works were carried out in the 70-80s. See the list of references in the doctoral dissertation of one of those specialists. http://tekhnosfera.com/tiporyad-mnogokanalnyh-vol
novodnyh-tehnologicheskih-co2-lazerov
The photo with him has been preserved. And this is not a booze, but a buffet at the 2004 scientific conference. in Adler (p. Veselyi) "Lasers in science, technology, medicine", conducted by the "Laser Association". I passed by there somehow.

[Vadim237]

It would be better to announce the massive introduction of plasma furnaces, in metallurgy, to produce cast irons and high-quality steels.

[Freelancer7]

One does not interfere with the other ... 5 times increased hardness - in my opinion this is a good result!

[Yura Yakovlev]

One does not interfere with another ... 5 times increased hardness - in my opinion this is a good result! [B] [/ b]

It is not hardness that increases, but microhardness, which is determined by the Vickers scale.

[Ivan Tarava]

We need plasma ovens for those who destroyed the Shell in Syria.

[Vadim237]

Such weapons in 100 years may appear.

[Mountain shooter]

Surface hardening with hardening and cementation. Is it convenient to do with a laser? Well done, that they noticed ...

[ziqzaq]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Surface hardening with hardening and cementation.

Hmm ... Hookup ??? As far as I remember, hardening is the creation of stress in steel to the yield point, but here it’s just smeared with carbon-containing rubbish and heated with a laser (well, if in an inert gas, argon for example) ....

[Weyland]

Quote: ziqzaq

Riveted ??? As far as I remember, hardening is the creation of stress in steel to the yield point,

During heat treatment, the so-called "phase hardening" - but this is a "jungle" for cool pros like me.

[amirbek]

Quote: Weyland

the so-called "phase hardening"

the main thing is to mislead a competitor ... this is probably where we started

[Igor V]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Surface hardening with hardening and cementation. Is it convenient to do with a laser? Well done, that they noticed ...

This is not related to heat treatment. It used to be called hardening, that is, applying a surface layer to an already finished part. I worked in the tool industry, we have strengthened the working edges of the die matrix, for example, to increase the service life between current repairs. Increased tool life. Made using electric erosion machines, a short-term electric arc, in fact. After this treatment, the surface had a low roughness class, so it was doubtful on the rubbing parts. With the help of a laser, this defect may have been eliminated.
In general, the Kaliningrad “Quartz” made installations for hardening, after which the details were smooth and clean. So technologies were a quarter century ago different.

[Mikhail3]

We once provided such a service - laser processing of cylinder mirrors. It seems that this operation is used now for boosting engines. As I understand it, the micropiks of the metal remaining after grinding are melted and aligned to a large extent. Since the laser heats the surface very locally, with the right settings, there was no significant change in the surface structure, just everything was smoothed out.

[Igor V]

The cylinders are honed, but this is the same grinding, only in different directions.

[NEXUS]

After laser treatment, the hardness of iron coated with nanostructured carbon increased by more than five times compared with the most common technical steel.

Can this be used in the manufacture of armor?

[MPN]

Quote: NEXUS

Can this be used in the manufacture of armor?

In fact, the structure of the steel does not change, as I understand it, but only the layer processed ... the basis of how the furnace was poured was rolled and there is one ...

[Mestny]

It can be used for the production of engines - specifically rubbing parts. For example bearings.

[MPN]

Quote: Mestny

It can be used for the production of engines - specifically rubbing parts. For example bearings.

And the cylinder walls will be treated with a bang ..., the most ..

[Beltasir matyagu]

Bearing inserts, articulations of crankshafts, cylinders, friction parts of rotors, gearboxes. I would like this spraying in gearboxes of power tools, this would negate the problem of price / quality. On metalworking machines would have come in handy too. True, such a layer is hardly refractory and will collapse under high friction

[NEXUS]

Quote: MPN

In fact, the structure of steel does not change, as I understand it

I wonder if this method works in the production of titanium armor, say for the SU-34?

[MPN]

The bottom line is that hardening of the armor plate does not occur, but only a micron layer is created on the surface, as I understand it, it is considered innovative only by the fact that this layer is compacted with nanotechnology and the hardness (not strength) of the layer is compacted by carbon tubes with relatives (the same carbon) ... that’s the whole innovation ... For surface wear and sliding properties it’s ideal, I think in engine building the very thing, there is hope for an increase in the resource of engines in the future.

[NEXUS]

Quote: MPN

The bottom line is that hardening of the armor plate does not occur, but only a micron layer is created on the surface

In other words, hardening does not occur over the entire thickness of the steel sheet ... hmm ... then really, most likely it will be more useful in the automotive industry.

[MPN]

Quote: NEXUS

In other words, hardening does not occur over the entire thickness of the steel sheet ... hmm ... then really, most likely it will be more useful in the automotive industry.

That's right, the automotive industry is not a panacea, all engines, including turbines, will gain a lot, wear + minimal friction ... this is necessary in many areas ...

[amirbek]

Quote: MPN

wear + minimal friction ...

and if you apply a multi-layer grid to the cell system to calibrate the gratings (which is unlikely), then we get the band effect and this is already polar protection erosion 0,001%

[Weyland]

Quote: NEXUS

Can this be used in the manufacture of armor?

Rather suitable for friction pairs - here Mestny is 100% right -

Quote: Mestny

It can be used for the production of engines - specifically rubbing parts. For example bearings.

[Simargl]

Quote: NEXUS

Can this be used in the manufacture of armor?

This is only a surface treatment of the upper nano-layer.

[Million]

And Lada as they rot right away from the assembly line, they will rot ...

[MPN]

Quote: Million

And Lada as they rot right away from the assembly line, they will rot ...

Yes, until they start to make them from beer cans, it will be so ... Here a beer can does not decompose for centuries ...

[Beltasir matyagu]

Now the whole world is doing such that "Lada" against their background looks decent

[Mestny]

And "Lada" what kind of car? Who is produced?
What decade have you come to us from, comrade?

[Million]

Yes, as Lada now do not call-still remain Lada

[Wild_grey_wolf]

Indeed, if you don’t call Zhiguli, they will remain decent technology, price, quality and availability, the main brain is that it does not rot and allows you to evaluate it.

[CA CA]

And in the late 115s, the ZIL-70 body was hardened by laser surface hardening. ;)

[net0103net]

Good news.

[Beltasir matyagu]

This is already a known technology. For example, titanium nitride deposition as a coating for cutting tools. If you use carbon, a similar thing comes out.

[amirbek]

Quote: Beltasir Matyagu

If you use carbon, a similar thing comes out

the kulibins had already thought of assembling a 3D printer for crystal lattices ... if so, then you can start to design anti-gravity (relative to our planet of course) material

[Rostislav]

Surface steel reinforcement allows you to increase the strength of parts ...

Maybe surface hardening?
Indeed, the

Unified generation ... what to take from them.

[Dead duck]

Laser helped

that's what a life-giving laser does

[denk20]

For some reason, I thought that steel is an alloy of iron with carbon, and not something “especially containing carbon compounds”.

[Igor V]

Steel is not an alloy, but a chemical mixture of iron and carbon.

[cast iron]

I was taught at the university on subjects foundry technology and materials science that steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. We did not study any chemical mixtures.

[Yura Yakovlev]

So this, it seems, was known in Soviet times.

[dgonni]

Have discovered that in engines of Merc and other manufacturers of heavy equipment over 20 years are used? Or just spioneered and trying to stupidly take money for it? Laser polishing of cylinders in Europe is not new! Therefore, given Avtodorovsky University, with a probability of 99,9% stupidly drank dough. And show the type we came up with :(

[Zomanus]

Yes, we regularly carry out similar developments.
But this does not go beyond laboratories and pilot plants.