Key Features:

• Description of Process: The steel is heated in an environment rich in carbon content, allowing diffusion to occur for carbon atoms at the surface layer.
• Surface Hardness: The outer surface hardening improvement of resistance to wear and fatigue.
• Core Toughness: The inner core remains softer and more ductile, but surprisingly contributes for its strength and shock.
• Common Applications: Gears, bearings, shafts, and so on that might be required to possess a tough core yet hard surface.

The importance of carburizing steel incorporates mostly uses in the automobile, aerospace, and heavy machinery industries-the engineering areas where parts must be subjected to stress from friction and mechanical loads. It also tends to increase the life of these parts and their better function in highly demanding environments. Further advancement in the carburizing techniques, such as gas and vacuum carburizing, continues to improve precision as well as efficiency and sustainability of steel treatment.