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In thermal spraying, uncoated substrates usually require roughening. As the most common roughening method, grit blasting increases the surface area and produces undercuts in almost all cases, which facilitate mechanical interlocking and thus promote the bonding between the substrate and coating. The effects of grit blasting parameters, i.e., the particle size, the blasting angle, the stand-off distance, and the pressure, on the resulting surface topography are investigated. Furthermore, the efficiency and wear behavior of the blasting media are analyzed. Influences of three different blasting media, corundum, alumina zirconia, and steel shot, on the surface roughening, are compared. By varying adjusted blasting parameters, different initial conditions (surface topography) are created. Subsequently, the substrate is coated, and the coating bond strength is measured. One of the main results of this publication is that alumina zirconia and steel grit show a longer lifetime than pure alumina as a blasting media. Moreover, it has been shown that the blasting parameters such as grain size, working pressure, and history (wear status) of the abrasive particles have a significant effect on the resulting surface topography. Additionally, systematical analysis in this study shows that the blasting parameters such as stand-off distance and blasting angle have a small influence on the results of the blasting process. Another important conclusion of this study is that the conventional surface parameters that have been analyzed in this study did not turn out to be suitable for describing the relationship between the surface topography of the substrate and resulting bond strength.
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This work is based on IGF-project 18.090 N (DVS-Nr.:02.095). The IGF-project of the Research Association on Welding and Allied Processes of the German Welding Society (DVS) have been, on the basis of a resolution of the Lower House of the German Parliament, promoted by the German Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology via AiF within the framework of the program for the promotion of joint industrial research and development (IGF). The authors would like to thank all parties involved for funding and support.
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This article is an invited paper selected from presentations at the 2015 International Thermal Spray Conference, held May 11–14, 2015, in Long Beach, California, USA, and has been expanded from the original presentation.
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Bobzin, K., Öte, M., Linke, T.F. et al. Influence of Process Parameter on Grit Blasting as a Pretreatment Process for Thermal Spraying. J Therm Spray Tech 25, 3–11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-015-0297-0
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