International Scientific Journals
of Scientific Technical Union of Mechanical Engineering "Industry 4.0"

The formation features of transition metals borides at high temperatures and low pressures were investigated and discussed the conditions of formation, structure and wear properties of boride layers on the surface, formed in electron beam processing in a vacuum.

The saturation of the surface layers of metals and alloys boron is conducted with the purpose of increase of their surface hardness, wear resistance, etc. Multicomponent layers containing in its composition borides of refractory metals, as a rule, formed by the methods of chemical-thermal processing in the interaction boriding component with refractory or by saturation boron refractory impurities metal or alloy.

In this work, we studied the features of formation of vanadium and iron borides on the surface of instrumental steels U8A and R18 under the influence of intense electron beams in continuous and pulse modes.