Abstract
This paper presents the effect of duration of solution nitriding towards microstructure and microhardness of AISI 316L stainless steel. The AISI 316L stainless steel was exposed to high temperature gas nitriding process at 1200 °C by using 50% ammonia gas and 50% nitrogen gas for different durations of 8, 15 and 20 hours. The nitrided austenitic stainless steel then underwent several analyses and tests to find the effect of different durations of nitriding towards its microstructures and microhardness. From the experiments conducted to the nitrided samples, it was found that the higher duration of nitriding resulted in the increase of microhardness of the samples due to the increase of nitrogen content in the stainless steel. However, there was no effect found on the microstructure of the nitrided samples. It was noted that the highest hardness was obtained from the nitrided sample of 20 hours that has 245.1 HV which is about 70% higher than the as-received sample.
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