Effects of Heat Treatment and Titanium Nitride (TiN) Coating Deposited by Sputtering Technique PVD on Duylos 2510 Tool Steel Substrate

The objective of this research is to characterize the effects of heat treatment such as quenching, tempering and TiN coating on mechanical and physical properties of duylos 2510 steel. These mechanical properties include wear rate, hardness, impact toughness, whereas physical properties are microstructures. Duylos 2510 steel is a cold work tool steel and has chemical composition (wt %) of 1C; 0,6 Cr; 0,1 V; 1 Mn; 0,25 Si and 0,6 W.Quenching process has been conducted by heating the specimens on austenite temperature of 800 °C with the soaking time of 30 minutes and then cooling these specimens in oil medium. Tempering process was done at temperatures of 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 dan 600 °C with holding time of 2 hours.TiN coating has been deposited on substrates by sputtering technique of Physical Vapor Deposition at temperatures of 100, 150, 200 and 250 °C with sputtering time of 45 minutes. The mechanical and physical properties have been characterized by wear test, Vickers micro hardness test, Charpy impact test, and metallography test. This research was performed at room temperature and the major parameters of this research were tempering and sputtering temperatures.The results show that tempering temperature variations give significant modification of mechanical properties. In general, the Vickers micro-hardness decreases if tempering temperatures of the specimen increase. The highest Vickers micro-hardness of TiN coatings is 290 HV0,01 for the specimen having sputtering temperature of 200 °C. Wear rate and impact energy increase if tempering temperatures increase. The results also show that the Vickers micro-hardness of coated specimens is higher than the micro Vickers hardness of non-coated specimens