The Effect of the Dilution Level on Microstructure and Wear Resistance of Fe-Cr-CV Hardfacing Coatings Deposited by PTA-P
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Soil preparation tools are subject to severe abrasion. The wear resistance of various industrial components can be improved using the hardfacing technique. The improvement in hardfacing wear resistance depends on the microstructure, i.e., the chemical composition of the alloys, the method of overlay, and the parameters of the selected process. The Plasma Transferred Arc with Powder (PTA-P) welding process is interesting as a hardfacing technique since it promotes very low dilution of the substrate in the coating. In this article, the PTA-P welding process was used for the deposition of Fe-Cr-C-based hard coatings with the addition of vanadium onto cheap and relatively soft low-carbon steel substrates. Rubber-wheel abrasion tests were performed to compare the abrasion resistance between commercial anti-wear steel and weld-deposited Fe-Cr-C-V hard coatings. In addition, the microstructure, dilution, and wear mechanisms were investigated. The dilution of the coatings affected the microstructure, in particular, the free mean path of the vanadium carbides, but it only affected abrasion resistance when the wear mechanism involved rolling abrasion. The deposited coatings proved to be at least three times stronger than a commercial abrasion-resistant steel due to the distribution and morphology of the vanadium carbides formed in the coatings.
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OpenAlex topics: Metal Alloys Wear and Properties · Advanced materials and composites · High Entropy Alloys Studies
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Post-Graduate Course on Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba 81280-340, Brazil
School of Engineering, Campus Carreiros, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande 96203-900, Brazil
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Fapergs (Brazil) · CNPq (Brazil)
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