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Electroless Amorphous NiP Coatings Over API X70 Steel: Resistance to Wear and Hydrogen Embrittlement

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The present work discusses very good resistance to hydrogen embrittlement as well as wear resistance of NiP coated API (American Petroleum Institute) X70 steel as compared to the bare steel and electrolytic crystalline Ni coated steel. The NiP coatings with three compositions (hypo, hyper and near-eutectic compositions), prepared by an electroless technique, were predominantly amorphous. The relative wear behavior of the coatings was studied using ball-on disc tests in air. The hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility (HES) was assessed using slow strain rate tensile (SSRT) tests after cathodic hydrogen charging of the coated as well as bare steel. The superior wear resistance of the NiP coated steels showed abrasive wear, whereas the Ni-coated steel showed adhesive wear. Hyper and hypo-eutectic NiP coated steels showed a comparatively lower H-induced embrittlement than the uncoated and Ni-electroplated steels and these could be attributed to the excellent hydrogen barrier property of the NiP coatings.

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The present authors thankfully acknowledge the experimental facility offered by the R&D Division, Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur, and Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. One of the co-authors (SBS) thanks SERB-DST, Government of India, for partial financial support.

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    Santigopal Samanta & Monojit Dutta

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, 208016, India

    K. Vishwanath & K. Mondal

  3. Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India

    Shiv Brat Singh

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Samanta, S., Vishwanath, K., Mondal, K. et al. Electroless Amorphous NiP Coatings Over API X70 Steel: Resistance to Wear and Hydrogen Embrittlement. Met. Mater. Int. 28, 397–411 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12540-021-01102-7

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