A study on the effect of varying pressure and distance on material hardening in INTI Plasma Focus Machine

Arwinder, Singh and Teh, Thiam Oun and Goh, Eng Hoe and Saw, Sor Heoh and Lee, Sing (2020) A study on the effect of varying pressure and distance on material hardening in INTI Plasma Focus Machine. INTI JOURNAL, 2020 (1). ISSN e2600-7320

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Abstract

Material hardening is a topic of much interest. In this paper, material hardening on AISI 1020 low carbon steel was done using INTI plasma focus (INTI PF) machine. It was found that the best distance for optimum hardening was to place the sample material 4 cm from the anode at a pressure of 1 Torr when the plasma machine is operating at 12 kV as it improves the hardening by 97.8%. Computation with the Lee codes produce plots of ion beam energy versus pressure and number of ions versus pressure. Thus we are able to correlate the optimum hardness of the treated sample surface to the interaction of optimum beam energy and number of ions.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: AISI 1020, INTI PF, Nitriding, Material Hardness, Beam Energy
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering & Quantity Surveying
Depositing User: Unnamed user with email masilah.mansor@newinti.edu.my
Date Deposited: 28 Sep 2020 02:10
Last Modified: 17 Mar 2024 07:30
URI: http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/id/eprint/1409

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