Dry Sliding Wear Behavior and Wear Mechanisms of Thermally Sprayed WCCo-Coatings

Abstract:

Thermal spraying is one of the most efficient methods to deposit hard wear resistant coatings. The coatings deposited by High-Velocity-Oxygen-Fuel spraying (HVOF) are characterized by high wear resistance and outstanding tribological characteristics. One of the most challenging tasks for tribologists is to develop surface treatments that allow for both operating the component without lubricants and at the same time minimize wear. WC-based cermets are a group of thermally sprayed coatings known to have high wear resistance under sliding friction conditions. An experimental study on the dry sliding wear behavior of WCCo HVOF-sprayed coating deposited onto a steel substrate is presented in the current paper. A pin-on-disc tribometer was used to carry out the wear tests.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 788)
• Pages: 143-150
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.788.143
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: Alexandra Gontarenko*, Kai Möhwald, Todd Alexander Deißer, Hans Jürgen Maier
• Keywords: HVOF, Pin-On-Disc Wear Test, Sliding Wear, Thermally Sprayed Coating, WCCo, Wear Mechanism

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