TY - JOUR
T1 - Wear resistant multilayer nanocomposite WC1-x/C coating on Ti-6Al-4V titanium alloy
AU - Pawlak, W.
AU - Kubiak, K. J.
AU - Wendler, B. G.
AU - Mathia, T. G.
PY - 2015/2
Y1 - 2015/2
N2 - A significant improvement of tribological properties on Ti-6Al-4V has been achieved by developed in this study multilayer treatment method for the titanium alloys. This treatment consists of an intermediate 2 μm thick TiCxNy layer which has been deposited by the reactive arc evaporation onto a diffusion hardened material with interstitial O or N atoms by glow discharge plasma in the atmosphere of Ar+O2 or Ar+N2. Subsequently, an external 0.3 μm thin nanocomposite carbon-based WC1-x/C coating has been deposited by a reactive magnetron sputtering of graphite and tungsten targets. The morphology, microstructure, chemical and phase compositions of the substrate material after treatment and coating deposition have been investigated with use of AFM, SEM, EDX, XRD, 3D profilometry and followed by tribological investigation of wear and friction analysis. An increase of hardness in the diffusion treated near-surface zone of the Ti-6Al-4V substrate has been achieved. In addition, a good adhesion between the intermediate gradient TiCxNy coating and the Ti-6Al-4V substrate as well as with the external nanocomposite coating has been obtained. Significant increase in wear resistance of up to 94% when compared to uncoated Ti-6Al-4V was reported. The proposed multilayer system deposited on the Ti-6Al-4V substrate is a promising method to significantly increase wear resistance of titanium alloys.
AB - A significant improvement of tribological properties on Ti-6Al-4V has been achieved by developed in this study multilayer treatment method for the titanium alloys. This treatment consists of an intermediate 2 μm thick TiCxNy layer which has been deposited by the reactive arc evaporation onto a diffusion hardened material with interstitial O or N atoms by glow discharge plasma in the atmosphere of Ar+O2 or Ar+N2. Subsequently, an external 0.3 μm thin nanocomposite carbon-based WC1-x/C coating has been deposited by a reactive magnetron sputtering of graphite and tungsten targets. The morphology, microstructure, chemical and phase compositions of the substrate material after treatment and coating deposition have been investigated with use of AFM, SEM, EDX, XRD, 3D profilometry and followed by tribological investigation of wear and friction analysis. An increase of hardness in the diffusion treated near-surface zone of the Ti-6Al-4V substrate has been achieved. In addition, a good adhesion between the intermediate gradient TiCxNy coating and the Ti-6Al-4V substrate as well as with the external nanocomposite coating has been obtained. Significant increase in wear resistance of up to 94% when compared to uncoated Ti-6Al-4V was reported. The proposed multilayer system deposited on the Ti-6Al-4V substrate is a promising method to significantly increase wear resistance of titanium alloys.
KW - Diffusion hardening
KW - Low wear coating
KW - Nanocomposite coating WC/C
KW - Titanium alloy Ti-6Al-4V
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84918782032&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.journals.elsevier.com/tribology-international
U2 - 10.1016/j.triboint.2014.05.030
DO - 10.1016/j.triboint.2014.05.030
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84918782032
VL - 82
SP - 400
EP - 406
JO - Tribology International
JF - Tribology International
SN - 0301-679X
IS - Part B
ER -