Treating carbon steel components to improve their surface properties such as hardness via the carburising process is a well established technology. And yet even today, aft er many years of development ...

The range of industrial applications for the plasma carburising process has been increasing over the past ten years as its benefits have been recognised in the automotive, heat treatment and now ...

What do gears, bearings, and shafts have in common? For one thing, they're often made out of steel. For another, they're subject to a failure mode known as rolling contact fatigue. Rolling contact ...

SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing, Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 217-224 (8 pages) ABSTRACT In four-cycle single-cylinder motorcycle engines, high Hertzian stress is ...