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Vanadium carbide coating growth on die steel substrate in borax salt bath

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Vanadium pentoxide, borax, boron carbide and sodium fluoride were used to grow vanadium carbide coating on die steel(Cr12, Cr12MoV) surface at 950 °C by TD process, which extended the life period of Cr12 and Cr12MoV as punching die. Kinetics of vanadium carbide coating growth was brought forward and verified by comparison of the mathematical model with the experimental results. The thickness of coating was illustrated by SEM. The chemical constituent of coating and remnants were tested by XRD. To increase the thickness, rare earths (FeSiRe23) were added to the borax salt bath. The electronic probe microanalysis (EPMA) revealed that the addition of rare earths could decrease carbon concentration in the coating and increase the depth of vanadium carbide coating.

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, 430070, China

    Hongfu Wang  (王洪福), Huachang Wang & Chenggang Pan

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, North University of China, Taiyuan, 030051, China

    Hongfu Wang  (王洪福)

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Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50675165) and the National Key Technology R&D Program (No.2006BAF02A29)

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Wang, H., Wang, H. & Pan, C. Vanadium carbide coating growth on die steel substrate in borax salt bath. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 25, 600–603 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-010-0052-9

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