Thèse soutenue

Traitements thermochimiques de surfaces nanostructurées. Modélisation numérique et expérimentation

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Auteur / Autrice : Victor Lacaille
Direction : Jean-Michel BergheauGuillaume Kermouche
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Mécanique et ingénierie
Date : Soutenance en 2015
Etablissement(s) : Ecole nationale d'ingénieurs (Saint-Etienne ; 1961-....)

Résumé

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Surface mechanical attrition is a way to improve the hardness of mechanical parts. It affects directly the microstructure of the treated part. In addition to their excellent hardness, wear resistance and fatigue resistance properties, nanostructured surfaces boost the diffusion of chemical elements and improve in this way the efficiency of thermochemical treatments which are also hardening methods by chemical processes. Although the reasons of this efficiency improving are known, the quantification of its effects is not still much understood. This work aims by numerical and experimental studies to give the basics for the creation of prediction tools of these effects. First, a finite elements analysis on representative volume elements leads to an analytical model and to an abacus for the prediction of the diffusion coefficient of a chemical element in a material with a given microstructure. The experimental part points out on a model material (Iron) that the effects of surface nanostructuring on nitriding stand mainly in the diffusion kinetics. It also gives data required for the explanation of experimentally observed phenomenon that the following chapter concerns. The last chapter of this work aims to elaborate the beginnings of an industrial tool which predicts the gain obtained by surface nanostructuring on the thermochemical treatment of a given material.