Corrosion behavior of HVOF-sprayed and Nd-YAG laser-remelted high-chromium,nickel-chromium coatings |
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| Authors: | J Tuominen P Vuoristo T Mäntylä S Ahmaniemi J Vihinen P H Andersson |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Materials Science, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 589, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland;(2) Institute of Production Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 589, FIN 33101 Tampere, Finland |
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| Abstract: | Thermal spray processes are widely used to deposit high-chromium, nickel-chromium coatings to improve high temperature oxidation
and corrosion behavior. However, despite the efforts made to improve the present spraying techniques, such as high-velocity
oxyfuel (HVOF) and plasma spraying, these coatings may still exhibit certain defects, such as unmelted particles, oxide layers
at splat boundaries, porosity, and cracks, which are detrimental to corrosion performance in severe operating conditions.
Because of the process temperature, only mechanical bonding is obtained between the coating and substrate. Laser remelting
of the sprayed coatings was studied in order to overcome the drawbacks of sprayed structures and to markedly improve the coating
properties. The coating material was high-chromium, nickel-chromium alloy, which contains small amounts of molybdenum and
boron (53.3% Cr, 42.5% Ni, 2.5% Mo, 0.5% B). The coatings were prepared by HVOF spraying onto mild steel substrates. A high-power,
fiber-coupled, continuous-wave Nd:YAG laser equipped with large beam optics was used to remelt the HVOF-sprayed coating using
different levels of scanning speed and beam width (10 or 20 mm). Coating that was remelted with the highest traverse speed
suffered from cracking because of the rapid solidification inherent to laser processing. However, after the appropriate laser
parameters were chosen, nonporous, crack-free coatings with minimal dilution between coating and substrate were produced.
Laser remelting resulted in the formation of a dense oxide layer on top of the coatings and full homogenization of the sprayed
structure. The coatings as sprayed and after laser remelting were characterized by optical and electron microscopy (OM, SEM,
respectively). Dilution between coating and substrate was studied with energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS). The properties
of the laser-remelted coatings were directly compared with properties of as-sprayed HVOF coatings. |
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| Keywords: | corrosion HVOF SX-717 laser remelting Nd-YAG laser |
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