FYP oh FYP

Isnin ni dah nak kena hantar Interim report... buat nye tak lagi. nak update ape la dalam interim report aku ni. four your information, untk fyp ni aku buat fyp under material scope. Tajuk FYP aku "Effect of High Temperature Nitriding on Fatigue of 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel". bapak tajok... panjang giler... Supervisor aku AP. Dr. Patthi Hussain. Die yg bagi tajok ni kat aku.

Briefly pasal fyp aku nye macam ni... 316L Austenitic Stainless Steel ni dah bnyk reseasrcher yg buat study pasal nitriding. tapi most of them at lower temperature which is below 600 degree C. but for my project, the nitriding process will be conducted at high temperature (1000 - 1250 degree C). Then the fatigue resistance after nitriding will be analysed. So nak tak samada fatigue resistance material tu increase ke tak lps high temperture nitriding.

For those yg tak tau nitriding tu ape, let me explain a little bit. Nitriding is a process where the nitrogen ion is diffused into material grain to form nitrided layer. Nitriding is one of the surface treatment to increase hardness, wear resistance and also fatigue resistance of material.

So far ape yg aku dah buat

• analyse microstucture for austenitic stainless steel before nnitriding using optical microscope and SEM.
  
• study the standard for fatigue testing which is ASME 446
• hardness test (Vicker's Microhardness)

Before end of this semester, harap dapat siap fabricate test specimen for fatigue test. for the next sem plan plak:

• perform nitriding process
• perform fatigue test (both for nitrided and unnitrided ASS)
• Microstructure analysis

Ape ape pon kna siapkan interim report dulu... esk dah nak kna hantar... Gud luck with youur FYP everybody...microstructure of 316 ASS under optical microscope