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Four experimental high vanadium alloys were gas nitrided in an ammonia-nitrogen atmosphere. The microstructure and concentration gradients have been investigated by means of several techniques. The nitriding process has been tentatively simulated using the DICTRA software. A precise process simulation does not seem possible at present; the reason for this is discussed. Instead, bounds for the carbon and nitrogen concentration profiles were obtained by applying different simulation conditions.
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Larsson, H., Ågren, J. Gas nitriding of high vanadium steels—experiments and simulations. Metall Mater Trans A 35, 2799–2802 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-004-0226-1
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