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The engineering components used in various applications, such as aircraft, power generation, marine, chemical, and paper industries, perform under extreme environmental conditions. The major issues encountered during performance wear, corrosion, erosion, or combinations of these will reduce the components' service life. Thermal spray practice has emerged as one of the important deposition techniques to overcome those above concerns. The high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF) thermal spray technique is widely employed among several thermal spray techniques due to its low cost of development, greater performance, and high-density coating formation with less porosity. This article presents an insight into the HVOF spray technique, its benefits, and limitations, along with respect to various coating materials and applications. This article also discusses the HVOF spray technique's effect on mechanical, tribological, and microstructural characteristics through different coating parameters concerning material consequences.
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Pradeep, D.G., Venkatesh, C.V. & Nithin, H.S. Review on Tribological and Mechanical Behavior in HVOF Thermal-sprayed Composite Coatings. J Bio Tribo Corros 8, 30 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40735-022-00631-x
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