New diamond composite tools and their impact on AISI 4140 alloy steel surface after slide burnishing

Working parts of slide burnishing tools were made from two new diamond composites with ceramic bonding: MAX Ti3GeC2 and TiB2nano phases, respectively. Microstructure and micro composition were analyzed by scanning and transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. Vickers hardness HV1 values were 36 and 46 GPa, Young’s moduli 490 and 560 GPa, tensile strengths 400 and 560 MPa, fracture toughness 8.4 and 11.0 MPa·m1/2 and friction coefficient values 0.63 and 0.56, respectively for the composites with MAX Ti3GeC2 and TiB2nano phases. The tools were tested by slide burnishing on previously turned AISI 4140 alloy steel bar. Improvement in the surface geometric structure was demonstrated for both materials, more so in the case of TiB2nano phase, as compared to burnishing bycomposites with MAX Ti3GeC2 phase.