The precipitation of chromium nitrides is also responsible for the high levels of hardening obtained.
We demonstrate that the trend of V∗ vs H, resulting from the ISE in a single specimen, concurs with that obtained from testing specimens with various levels of work hardening.
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The lifetime under non-proportional loading has been shown to correlate well with the level of additional hardening.
The higher momentum of the WC particles led to a higher level of work hardening of the matrix, which resulted in improvement of the hardness and wear resistance of the MMC coatings.
Indeed, by using the cryogenic cooling, a reduction of more than 40% of the surface roughness could be realized, a higher level of work hardening occurred, a lower level of tensile residual stress was measured and better resistances to stress corrosion cracking and pitting corrosion were noticed.
The volume fraction of nanoscale crystals is dependent on complex relationships of different factors chemical composition of metastable alloys, rate of cooling and following heating in the course of the direct γ α, and the reverse α γ transformations, the number of the repeated γ α γ transformations (level of the phase hardening) [1, 2, 4 6].
