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Corrosion-Wear Resistance and Interfacial Morphologies of Novel Fe–Cr–B Cast Steels in Molten Aluminum

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In order to improve the corrosion–wear resistance properties of steels in molten aluminum, novel Fe–Cr–B cast steels with different boron concentrations were prepared. The steels were investigated at 750 °C for 0.5 h using a ring-block corrosion–wear test, and the interfacial morphologies were examined. Results showed that the corrosion–wear resistance of the Fe–Cr–B cast steel was three times that of H13, and benefited greatly from the effects of the primary Cr-rich Fe2B, which bore the main load during the corrosion–wear test. The corrosion–wear behavior of the coarse primary Cr-rich Fe2B in molten aluminum was clearly different from that in static molten aluminum.

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The authors appreciate the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51701053), the General Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan (Grant No. 517076), the Opening Project of Guangdong Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials Processing (South China University of Technology; Grant No. GJ201609), the Scientific Research Foundation of Hainan University (Grant No. hyqd1629), and the central government guiding special funds for the development of local science and technology (ZY2018HN09-6).

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    Xianman Zhang & Hongfeng Luo

  2. Guangdong Key Laboratory for Advanced Metallic Materials Processing, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510640, Guangdong Province, People’s Republic of China

    Weiping Chen

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Zhang, X., Chen, W. & Luo, H. Corrosion-Wear Resistance and Interfacial Morphologies of Novel Fe–Cr–B Cast Steels in Molten Aluminum. Tribol Lett 66, 112 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11249-018-1066-2

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