PENGARUH WAKTU PELAPISAN KHROM KERAS PADA BAJA KARBON RENDAH TERHADAP SIFAT FISIS DAN MEKANIS

The use of steel is currently very rapid, generally used in the field of materials engineering and machining tools. Low carbon steel has a weakness against corrosion, wear and hardness. This drawback can be overcome by providing a layer on the surface with hard chrome electroplating method. This study aims to determine the influence of electroplating time by hard chrome on low carbon steel to the physical and mechanical properties. Want to know the characteristics of the layer is a thick layer, hardness, corrosion rate and wear surfaces. Low carbon steel used has a chemical composition (wt%): 0.034 C, 0.02 S