Papers by Keyword: Interfacial Cracking

Abstract: The interfacial cracking behaviors of a chromium (Cr) coating/laser pre-quenched steel substrate system and a Cr coating/original steel substrate system under thermal fatigue loading were investigated in this work. The experiment results show that the Cr coating on the pre-quenched substrate surface exhibited a higher resistance of interfacial cracking than that of the Cr coating on the original substrate surface under the same loading condition. This indicates the technology of laser pre-quenching of steel substrate surface prior to plating the Cr coating can improve the interfacial adhesion properties between the coating and substrate.