DLC涂层应用于活塞环

本文介绍了采用PVD处理方法获得的DLC涂层，针对DLC涂层应用于活塞环，提高活塞环耐磨、减摩性能做了重点介绍，并叙述了该领域的发展现状及趋势。     

Enhanced Performance of Nanostructured Coatings for Drilling by Droplet Elimination

Cutting tool performance is mainly characterized by material substrate, cutting edge geometry, and coating, and also by a good choice of the cutting parameters, mainly cutting speed, depth of cut, and feed. In drilling a good choice of substrate/coating can reduce production costs per hole cut by 50%. Coatings evolution has gone from monolayer to nanostructured and/or nanometric-scale multilayer coatings. These are used because of their high hardness, good corrosion and oxidation resistance, and thermal stability. Cutting edge preparation on the one hand and droplet elimination after the coating process on the other are important issues for reaching a good tool/coating performance, being a key issue. In this article a series of coatings for drilling low and medium carbon alloyed steels are presented, along with their performance. Validation tests were carried out on steel 42CrMo4, very often used in the automotive sector. Seven coatings were tested, including AlCrSiN, µAlTiN, TiAlCrN, AlTiCrN, AlCrN, AlTiSiN, and TiAlSiN. Flank wear, evolution of drilling thrust force and torque, damage on cutting edge faces on primary cutting edge, and behavior of drill bit secondary edges were studied. A final elimination of droplets by drag grinding was performed in several cases. Process monitoring, scanning electron microscope (SEM) microscopy, and energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) analysis were used, concluding that the best results were for µAlTiN, TiAlSiN, and AlTiSiN. Reasons for the good behavior are the good surface finishing after droplet elimination and the high thermal stability of these protective layers.     

Enhanced microwave-absorbing properties of FeCo magnetic film-functionalized silicon carbide fibers fabricated by a radio frequency magnetron method

Silicon carbide (SiC) fibers have potential application in microwave absorption materials in recent years. In this study, we provide a new method for improving the microwave-absorbing properties of SiC fibers. Magnetic FeCo films were fabricated on SiC fibers at low temperature and high vacuum by a radio frequency magnetron sputtering method. The properties of FeCo film/SiC fiber (FeCo/SiC_f) composites were investigated. When compared with SiC fiber, the FeCo/SiC_f composites exhibit excellent microwave-absorbing properties in the microwave range, with enhancements in the optimal reflectivity loss from −5.03 to −25.51 dB. This excellent performance may be because of the magnetic loss due to ferromagnetic resonance and interfacial polarization, thus inducing dielectric relaxation. In addition, the magnetic properties of FeCo/SiC_f composites are significantly improved: the value of saturation magnetization reaches up to 41.45 emu/g and the coercivity is 116.27 Oe. In addition, the strength of SiC fiber remains at 99.17% after the fabrication process. The method provided in this study for enhancing the microwave-absorbing properties of FeCo/SiC_f composites will pave a new way for the development of SiC microwave-absorbing materials.     

Cavitation erosion resistance parameter of hard CAVD coatings

Nowadays the most machining tools are coated with hard coatings to prolong their lifetime and to improve their working efficiency. They are very often used for high wear applications, where they are subjected to cyclic impact loading. Main benefits of hard coatings are based on the combination of high hardness and toughness, properties that are especially important in the conditions of dynamic impact wear when high cyclic local loading is the main cause of coating degradation. A cavitation test can be a useful tool for studies of plastic deformation, crack initiation and propagation in thin hard coatings. Cavitation damage is caused by repeating action of imploding cavitation bubbles in the vicinity of solid surface.     

Comparative evaluation of machinability characteristics of Nimonic C-263 using CVD and PVD coated tools

Machining of Nimonic C-263 has always been a challenging task owing to its hot strength, low thermal conductivity, tendency to work harden and affinity towards tool materials. Although coated tools have been used to overcome some of these challenges, selection of coated tool with appropriate deposition technique is of immense significance. The current study attempts to comparatively evaluate various performance measures in machining of Nimonic C-263 such as surface roughness, cutting force, cutting temperature, chip characteristics, and tool wear with particular emphasis on different modes of tool failure for commercially available inserts with multi-component coating deposited using chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and physical vapour deposition (PVD) techniques. Influence of cutting speed (V_c) and machining duration (t) has also been investigated using both coated tools. The study demonstrated remarkable decrease in surface roughness (74.3%), cutting force (6.3%), temperature (13.4%) and chip reduction coefficient (22%) with PVD coated tool consisting of alternate layers of TiN and TiAlN over its CVD coated counterpart with TiCN/Al₂O₃ coating in bilayer configuration. Severe plastic deformation and chipping of cutting edge and nose, abrasive nose and flank wear along with formation of built-up-layer (BUL) were identified as possible mechanisms of tool failure. PVD coated tool successfully restricted different modes of tool wear for the entire range of cutting speed. Superior performance can be attributed to the hardness and wear resistance properties, thermal stability due to presence of TiAlN phase and excellent toughness owing to PVD technique and multilayer architecture.     

金属陶瓷及硬质合金表面CVD/PVD涂层的摩擦与切削性能

为研究涂层沉积方式对金属陶瓷和硬质合金性能的影响,采用粉末冶金技术制备了Ti(C,N)基金属陶瓷和YT15硬质合金,在基体表面先后采用CVD和PVD制备涂层。采用SEM、EDS等手段对涂层的微观组织和元素含量进行分析,并对涂层试样进行划痕、摩擦因数、切削性能检测。结果表明,通过复合CVD+PVD工艺,CVD涂层和PVD涂层结合良好。不论是金属陶瓷还是硬质合金,CVD涂层的膜基结合力和摩擦因数均为最大,PVD涂层最小,复合CVD+PVD涂层介于两者之间。对于金属陶瓷和硬质合金而言,复合CVD+PVD涂层的切削性能最好,CVD涂层最差,PVD涂层介于两者之间。切削过程中的磨损机理主要是氧化磨损和磨粒磨损。     

Use of ethyl-dimethyl-2-methoxyethylammonium tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate as base oil additive in the lubrication of TiN PVD coating

This paper discusses and compares the use of ethyl-dimethyl-2-methoxyethylammonium tris(pentafluoroethyl)trifluorophosphate ionic liquid [(NEMM)MOE][FAP] and the traditional zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDDP) as 1 wt% additives to a polyalphaolefin (PAO 6) in the lubrication of TiN PVD coating. Tribological tests performed using a ball-on-plate reciprocating tribometer showed how both additives improve the anti-friction and anti-wear behaviors of the base oil for the two loads tested. However, the traditional additive ZDDP showed the lowest friction coefficient in all cases. Interferometry and XPS analyses showed that the formation of tribofilms resulting from the interaction of the ionic liquid with the surface contributed to the tribological improvement.     

Compositional and structural evolution of sputtered Ti-Al-N

The compositional and structural evolution of Ti-Al-N thin films as a function of the total working gas pressure (p_T), the N₂-to-total pressure ratio (p_N2/p_T), the substrate-to-target distance (ST), the substrate position, the magnetron power current (I_m), the externally applied magnetic field, and the energy and the ion-to-metal flux ratio of the ion bombardment during reactive sputtering of a Ti_0.5Al_0.5 target is investigated in detail. Based on this variation we propose that the different poisoning states of the Ti and Al particles of the powder-metallurgically prepared Ti_0.5Al_0.5 target in addition to scattering and angular losses of the sputter flux cause a significant modification in the Al/Ti ratio of the deposited thin films ranging from ~ 1.05 to 2.15.The compositional variation induces a corresponding structural modification between single-phase cubic, mixed cubic-hexagonal and single-phase hexagonal. However, the maximum Al content for single-phase cubic Ti_1−xAl_xN strongly depends on the deposition conditions and was obtained with x = 0.66, for the coating deposited at 500 °C, p_T = 0.4 Pa, ST = 85 mm, and p_N2/p_T = 17%. Our results show, that in particular, the N₂-to-total pressure ratio in combination with the sputtering power density of the Ti_0.5Al_0.5 compound target has a pronounced effect on the Al/Ti ratio and the structure development of the coatings prepared.     

Relaxation of extrinsic and intrinsic stresses in germanium substrates with silicon films

Si films were deposited on Ge substrates at 400°C by two different Physical Vapor Deposition techniques: (A) ion beam sputtering and (B) magnetron sputtering. The intrinsic stresses in the as-deposited films were measured to be compressive and much greater in samples (A), about −1500 to −2000 MPa than in samples (B), about −300 to −500 MPa. The substrates were subsequently exposed to thermal treatments for varying times at 800°C. In the lower stressed (B) samples, the films had relaxed and reduced the overall curvature of the structure whereas in the high stresses (A) samples, an irreversible large increase in the substrate curvature was found to occur. This indicated that plastic deformation in the Ge substrates itself had occurred.     

Effects of applied substrate bias during reactive sputter deposition of nanocomposite tantalum carbide/amorphous hydrocarbon thin films

Nanocomposite tantalum carbide/amorphous hydrocarbon (TaC/a-C:H) thin film composition, structure, and mechanical properties depend on the direct current bias voltage (V_b) level applied to the substrate during reactive sputter deposition. A set of TaC/a-C:H films was deposited across the range V_b = 0 to − 300 V with all other deposition parameters held constant except substrate temperature, which was allowed to reach its steady state during the depositions. Effects of V_b on film composition and structure were explored, including TaC crystallite size and dispersion using X-ray diffraction and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. In addition, the dependency of stress and hardness on V_b was studied with an emphasis on relationships to a-C:H phase structure.