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WC-Ti Coatings Deposited Via Cold Gas Spray and Modified by Laser and Furnace Heat Treatments

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This work is focused on furnace and laser post-treatment and characterization of WC-Ti cermet coatings obtained by cold gas spray technique. The main purposes of this study are (i) to find a suitable alternative to cobalt as metallic binder, since it has been listed as a critical material and (ii) to investigate the effects of different post-deposition heat treatments, carried out to trigger a self-propagating high-temperature synthesis reaction able to promote a partial and controlled decarburization of WC and the consequential in-situ nucleation of TiC micro/nano-precipitates. A standard furnace heat-treatment at 550 °C and different laser treatments were performed with the aim of increasing the overall coating microhardness.

The effects of the furnace and laser treatments on the WC-Ti coatings were evaluated in terms of microscopic, compositional and phase analyses and through preliminary block-on-ring sliding wear tests. The microstructure exhibited a good distribution of carbides, with an average size ranging from submicrometric to 5μm, and the XRD analysis revealed the formation of TiC in the laser-treated coatings. In the sliding wear tests, the laser-treated materials showed a significative reduction in the wear rate, with a weight loss up to 75% lower than both the furnace-treated and the as-sprayed coatings.

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    Lidia Baiamonte, Giovanni Pulci, Laura Paglia & Francesco Marra

  2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, 00184, Rome, RM, Italy

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  3. Centro Sviluppo Materiali S.p.A., Lamezia Terme branch office, Lamezia Terme, CZ, Italy

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Baiamonte, L., Pulci, G., Gisario, A. et al. WC-Ti Coatings Deposited Via Cold Gas Spray and Modified by Laser and Furnace Heat Treatments. J Therm Spray Tech 30, 2083–2098 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11666-021-01278-9

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