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Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Research on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. 124/78) for a decision adopting a programme of research for the European Atomic Energy Community on safety in thermal water reactors (indirect nuclear action). EP Working Documents, document 411/78, 31 October 1978
Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Research on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. 355/78) for a decision adopting a research programme for the European Atomic Energy Community on codes and standards for fast breeder reactors (structural integrity of components). EP Working Documents, document 493/78, 8 December 1978
Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy, Research and Technology on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. 1-466/83 - COM(83) 258 final) for a Decision adopting the first European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technologies (ESPRIT). Working Documents 1983-1984, Document 1-750/83, 27 September 1983
Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Research on basic technological research in the automobile industry, Working Documents 1983-1984, Document 1-235/83, 3 May 1983
Report drawn up on behalf of the Committee on Energy and Research on the results of the INFCE Conference (international Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation). EP Working Documents 1982-83, Document 1-200/82, 28 May 1982
Improvement in Wear Resistance of Grade 37 Titanium by Microwave Plasma Oxy-Carburizing
Grade 37 titanium is widely used in racing applications thanks to its oxidation resistance up to 650 °C, but it suffers from poor wear and fretting resistance, especially at high temperature. In this paper, different surface modification techniques, namely, carburizing, coating by PVD-ZrO2 and a novel microwave plasma oxy-carburizing treatment, are investigated in terms of hardness, wear resistance and scratch hardness, compared to the untreated substrate. Numerical simulation allowed optimization of the design of the microwave plasma source, which operated at 2.45 GHz at atmospheric pressure. The proposed microwave plasma oxy-carburizing treatment is localized and can serve to improve the tribological properties of selected regions of the sample; compared to untreated Grade 37 titanium, the oxy-carburized layer presents a decrease in the wear rate at 450 °C against alumina of 54% and an increase in scratch hardness of more than three times
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