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Ni-Flash-Coated Galvannealed Steel Sheet with Improved Properties

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In the last several years, automobile industries have increasingly focused on galvannealed (GA) steel sheet due to their superior properties such as weldability, paintability and corrosion protection. To improve the properties further, different coatings on GA have been reported. In this context, an electroplating process (flash coating) of bright and adherent Ni plating was developed on GA steel sheet for covering the GA defects and enhancing the performances such as weldability, frictional behavior, corrosion resistance and phosphatability. For better illustration, a comparative study with bare GA steel sheet has also been carried out. The maximum electroplating current density of 700 A/m2 yielded higher cathode current efficiency of 95-98%. The performances showed that Ni-coated (coating time 5-7 s) GA steel sheet has better spot weldability, lower dynamic coefficient of friction (0.07 in lubrication) and three times more corrosion resistance compared to bare GA steel sheet. Plate-like crystal of phosphate coating with size of 10-25 µm was obtained on the Ni-coated GA. The main phase in the phosphate compound was identified as hopeite (63.4 wt.%) along with other phases such as spencerite (28.3 wt.%) and phosphophyllite (8.3 wt.%).

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The authors are also grateful to Mr. V. Sharma for surface characterization, Mr. L. R. Murmu for spot weldability test, Mrs. Nitu Rani and Mr. S. K. Mishra for phosphating experiments, Mr. M. K. Lal for frictional coefficient measurement and Ms. Samvedana for grazing XRD measurement.

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Pradhan, D., Dutta, M. & Venugopalan, T. Ni-Flash-Coated Galvannealed Steel Sheet with Improved Properties. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 25, 4996–5006 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-016-2290-2

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