Cold Spray Coatings Morphology

In the Cold Spraying technology, the coatings are produced as a result of the supersonic acceleration of the particles in a gas jet, at temperatures below the melting/phase transformation point of the sprayed material. In this paper, the morphology of a Ni/CrC cold spray coating is studied, based on...

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Main Authors: A. Ștefan, D.-L. Chicet, B. Istrate, C. Munteanu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2024-12-01
Series:Archives of Metallurgy and Materials
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Online Access:https://journals.pan.pl/Content/133550/AMM-2024-4-31-Chicet.pdf
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Summary:In the Cold Spraying technology, the coatings are produced as a result of the supersonic acceleration of the particles in a gas jet, at temperatures below the melting/phase transformation point of the sprayed material. In this paper, the morphology of a Ni/CrC cold spray coating is studied, based on the identification of the particle’s characteristic at various magnifications, both on cross-section and on the surface of the samples. The layer appearance is continuous, uniform and sinuous, no adhesion defects were observed at the substrate-coating interface, and the plastic deformation of the steel was highlighted. The elemental chemical analysis on the sample cross-section, together with the distribution map shows that the carbide particles have retained their sphericity to a large extent, being uniformly embedded in the Ni matrix, as a result of the plastic deformation. This allows a higher thickness of the cold spray coatings comparatively to the ones obtained with the other thermal spray methods that imply high temperatures of the gas jet and layered microstructures.
ISSN:2300-1909