Paper Title:

Growth of Ceramic Coatings on LY12 Aluminum Alloys by Micro-Arc Oxidation and Microstructure Properties of Ceramic Coatings

Periodical Advanced Materials Research (Volume 508)
Main Theme Measurement and Control of Granular Materials
Edited by Zhixian Jin, Zhi Xie and Guosheng Gai
Pages 246-249
DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.508.246
Citation Jing Long Gao et al., 2012, Advanced Materials Research, 508, 246
Online since April, 2012
Authors Jing Long Gao, Zhong Cai Shao, Tong Zhen Li
Keywords Cell Violate, Ceramic Coating, LY12 Aluminium Alloy, Micro-Arc Oxidization
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Abstract

LY12 aluminum alloy samples were treated by microarc oxidation in sodium metasilicate electrolytes. The effects of treatment time on cell violate and ceramic coating thickness were investigated. The results indicate that the micro-arc oxidization process was divided into two stages, at the first stage, the cell voltage increased linearly at a very high rate of 70 V/min, at the second stage, in the range of 430-470 V, the cell voltage reached a relative stable value. The thickness of the coating increased linearly at the whole stage with increasing treating time. XRD analyses indicate that the ceramic coatings fabricated on the surface of aluminum alloys by micro-arc oxidization are composed of Al phase Al2O3 phase. SEM show that the maximum porosity of the ceramic coatings with distributing uniformly pore diameter are decreased with the increasing treatment time.