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Influence of the Substrate on the Formation of Metallic Glass Coatings by Cold Gas Spraying

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Cold gas spray technology has been used to build up coatings of Fe-base metallic glass onto different metallic substrates. In this work, the effect of the substrate properties on the viscoplastic response of metallic glass particles during their impact has been studied. Thick coatings with high deposition efficiencies have been built-up in conditions of homogeneous flow on substrates such as Mild Steel AISI 1040, Stainless Steel 316L, Inconel 625, Aluminum 7075-T6, and Copper (99.9%). Properties of the substrate have been identified to play an important role in the viscoplastic response of the metallic glass particles at impact. Depending on the process gas conditions, the impact morphologies show not only inhomogeneous deformation but also homogeneous plastic flow despite the high strain rates, 108 to 109 s−1, involved in the technique. Interestingly, homogenous deformation of metallic glass particles is promoted depending on the hardness and the thermal diffusivity of the substrate and it is not exclusively a function of the kinetic energy and the temperature of the particle at impact. Coating formation is discussed in terms of fundamentals of dynamics of undercooled liquids, viscoplastic flow mechanisms of metallic glasses, and substrate properties. The findings presented in this work have been used to build up a detailed scheme of the deposition mechanism of metallic glass coatings by the cold gas spraying technology.

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The authors would like to thank IMPACT INNOVATIONS GmbH for their collaboration in coating deposition, EPSON-ATMIX for providing the powder used in this work, and the Generalitat de Catalunya through 2014 SGR 1558 for the financial support. The authors also acknowledge the CPT grant for supporting “John Henao” in his PhD program at the Universitat de Barcelona.

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Henao, J., Concustell, A., Dosta, S. et al. Influence of the Substrate on the Formation of Metallic Glass Coatings by Cold Gas Spraying. J Therm Spray Tech 25, 992–1008 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-016-0419-3

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