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Mechanical Behavior of TiN/TiC-n Multilayer Coatings and Ti(C,N) Multicomponent Coatings Produced by PACVD

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Mechanical properties of multilayer and multicomponent coatings were investigated in this paper. Titanium nitride/titanium carbide (TiN/TiC-n) multilayer and Ti(C,N) multicomponent coatings were prepared on the surface of AISI H13 hot work tool steel by the pulsed-DC plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD). The microhardness, the toughness, the wear loss, and the friction coefficient were examined by Vickers hardness test and the pin-on-disk wear test. The optical microscopy was also used to examine worn surfaces and to characterize wear mechanisms. The results obtaiond show that multilayer coatings of TiN/TiC-10 have the lowest friction coefficient (as 0.2) and wear loss, the highest toughness (as 17. 7 MPa∙m 1/2 ) and microhardness (as 3150 VHN) among those values for multicomponent Ti(C,N) coatings and other multilayer coatings.

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    M. Azadi

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  3. Advanced Materials and Renewable Energies Department, Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

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Translated from Problemy Prochnosti, No. 2, pp. 104 – 117, March – April, 2016.

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Azadi, M., Rouhaghdam, A.S. & Ahangarani, S. Mechanical Behavior of TiN/TiC-n Multilayer Coatings and Ti(C,N) Multicomponent Coatings Produced by PACVD. Strength Mater 48, 279–289 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11223-016-9763-2

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