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Wear Properties of Plasma Transferred Arc Fe-based Coatings Reinforced by Spherical WC Particles

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Fe-based coatings reinforced by spherical WC particles were produced on the 304 stainless steel by plasma transferred arc (PTA) to enhance the surface wear properties. Three different Fe/WC composite powder mixtures containing 0wt%, 30wt%, and 60wt% of WC were investigated. The microstructure and phase composition of the Fe/WC composite PTA coatings were evaluated systemically by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The wear properties of the three fabricated PTA coatings were investigated on a BRUKER UMT TriboLab. The morphologies of the worn tracks and wear debris were characterized by using SEM and 3D non-contract profiler. The experimental results reveal that the microhardness on the cross-section and the wear resistance of the fabricated coatings increase dramatically with the increasing adding WC contents. The coating containing 60wt% of WC possesses excellent wear resistance validated by the lower coefficients of friction (COF), narrower and shallower wear tracks and smaller wear rate. In the pure Fe-based coating, the main wear mechanism is the combination of adhesion and oxidative wear. Adhesive and two-body abrasive wear are predominated in the coating containing 30wt% of WC, whereas threebody abrasion wear mechanism is predominated in the coating containing 60wt% of WC.

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  1. College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jian Qiao University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Li Fan  (范丽)

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Yaohua Dong  (董耀华)

  3. College of Ocean Science and Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

    Yaohua Dong  (董耀华), Haiyan Chen, Lihua Dong & Yansheng Yin

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Funded by the Ocean Public Science and Technology Research Fund Projects of China (No. 201405013-3), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51609133), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2017M620153) and the Science & Technology Program of Shanghai Maritime University (No.20130448)

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Fan, L., Dong, Y., Chen, H. et al. Wear Properties of Plasma Transferred Arc Fe-based Coatings Reinforced by Spherical WC Particles. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 34, 433–439 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-019-2070-6

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