{"id":4984,"date":"2025-06-19T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=4984"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:56:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:26:05","slug":"case-hardening-surface-hardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/me\/engineering-materials\/case-hardening-surface-hardening","title":{"rendered":"Case Hardening or Surface Hardening"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hard Surfaces are produced on relatively soft materials by case hardening. The parts which are subjected to wear and impact are hardened by surface treatment, the hard surface has good wear resistance and the soft cover has good toughness.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since mild steels cannot be hardened by quenching, so there strength is increased by case hardening.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">A hard wear resistance surface is called case and relatively soft and tough inside is called the core.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">For low carbon steel nitriding, <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/me\/engineering-materials\/cyaniding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cyaniding<\/a> and carburising is used whereas for high carbon steel induction and flame hardening is used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard Surfaces are produced on relatively soft materials by case hardening. The parts which are subjected to wear and impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1578,10],"tags":[1605,1604],"class_list":["post-4984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering-materials","category-me","tag-case-hardening","tag-core"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}