Characterization of Nanostructured and Conventional TiAlN Coatings Deposited on AISI-304 Boiler Steel

Abstract:

In the manuscript conventional and nanostructured nitrided coatings developed to increase hardness and to improve the wear, erosion and corrosion resistance of structural materials. Three coatings of TiAlN were deposited on AISI-304, out of which two were thin nanocoatings at different temperatures of 500°C and 200°C are developed by Oerlikon Balzer’s rapid coating system machine under a reactive nitrogen atmosphere. One conventional coating TiAl was deposited by Plasma spraying method which was post nitrided. Then the coated samples were characterized with relative to coating thickness, microhardness, porosity and structure. The XRD and SEM/EDAX techniques have been used to identify various phases formed after coating on the surface of steel.The microhardness of conventional TiAlN coating was found to be of the order of 900-950 Hv. The grain size for nanostructured TiAlN coatings deposited at 500°C and 200°C are 15nm and 14nm respectively as calculated by Sherrer’s formula from XRD plot.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1137)
• Pages: 1-14
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1137.1
• Online since: June 2016
• Authors: Jasmaninder Singh Grewal*, Buta Singh Sidhu, Satya Prakash
• Keywords: Nanostructured Coatings, Physical Vapour Deposition, Plasma Spraying

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