|Publication number||US4389251 A|
|Application number||US 06/225,047|
|Publication date||Jun 21, 1983|
|Filing date||Jan 14, 1981|
|Priority date||Jan 17, 1980|
|Also published as||CA1177283A, CA1177283A1, DE3101445A1, DE3101445C2|
|Publication number||06225047, 225047, US 4389251 A, US 4389251A, US-A-4389251, US4389251 A, US4389251A|
|Inventors||Wolfgang Simm, Hans-Theo Steine, Daniel Audemars|
|Original Assignee||Castolin S.A.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (10), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (17), Classifications (12), Legal Events (6)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The invention relates to a spraying powder consisting of a mixture of at least two different alloys, for producing a heterogeneous layer on a substrate by a usual process of thermal spraying.
Known layers resistant to frictional wear and consisting of relatively hard alloys present strong inherent tensions, which introduce a high danger of cracking. This danger exists, both at the time of forming the layer on the substrate part and during operation of the part when temperature loading occurs at the layer. Furthermore, known layers having high wear resistance, such as layers including carbides or hard oxides, show poor frictional properties, as a result of which their use on parts subjected to friction becomes problematical or impossible, because of the resulting scratching effect.
The main object of the invention is to provide a spraying powder allowing to produce, by thermal spraying, a protective layer on a substrate, which layer has only low inherent tensions and a high resistance to frictional wear. It is a further object of the invention to provide a spraying powder allowing to produce such a layer having in addition very good frictional properties and allowing to substantially increase the life of the protected substrate part in operation.
These and other objects are achieved, according to the invention, by a spraying powder comprising a mechanical mixture of alloy powders of at least two different alloys being selected among a nickel and/or a cobalt and/or an iron alloy and having a different hardness within the range from 200 to 650 Hv and/or, when in cast, sprayed or similar form, a different static coefficient of friction in the range from 0.01 to 0.3 μS. Preferably, at least one of the alloys of said mixture is selected among alloys undergoing a modification in structure during the spraying operation.
In preferred embodiments of the invention, the hardness of a first alloy of the said mixture is within the range of 200 to 450 Hv and preferably of 200 to 380 Hv, and the hardness of a second alloy of the said mixture is within the range of 350 to 650 Hv and preferably of 350 to 500 Hv, the said difference in hardness being of at least 30 Hv. Hv designates, as usually, the hardness after Vickers (corresponding to the Diamond Pyramid Hardness designated DPH). The static coefficient of friction herein referred to, is defined for an alloy in cast, sprayed or similar form.
The layers obtained with the powder according to the invention can be used with great advantage in an installation for the manufacture of paper, for example, on a paper-drying cylinder of a yankee-dryer.
Other features, properties and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description and the practical examples included therein.
It is to be generally noted that the layers obtained with the powders according to the invention, have a lamellar structure, in which juxtaposed lamellae are formed of different alloys which impart to the lamellae a different hardness and/or a different static coefficient of friction. As a result, the layer exhibits very good frictional properties and a uniform degree of wear. More especially, the properties of the layer may, by choice of the alloy powders and the mixing ratio, be very accurately matched to a specific case of use, i.e. to desired mechanical properties, such as coefficient of friction and wear resistance, and to required physical properties of the layer, such as elasticity, weak internal tensions, etc. It is also possible thereby to satisfy in best possible manner the generally contradictory requirements as regards high resistance to wear and good frictional properties.
The spraying powders which are advantageously used may have the usual grain size. They can be applied by a conventional thermal spraying process, such as, for example, with an oxyacetylene powder flame-spraying torch, an arc spray gun or a plasma spray gun. More especially, in the event of iron alloys being used, the layer may also be produced with a wire-spraying pistol. Depending on the method being used, the lamellae will be in a coarser or finer form. The layer is always produced by spraying, without subsequent fusion, the substrate being provided with a conventional bond coat.
By the possibility of keeping the inherent tensions of the layers low, the layers produced with the powders according to the invention may have a thickness up to 10 mm, whereas in conventional layers having a hardness of more than 400 Hv, micro-cracks due to internal stresses are practically unavoidable, already at a thickness of about 1.5 mm. Because of the mentioned structure, the layers produced by the powders according to the invention also withstand the temperature loadings which occur in operation of the substrate part.
The said properties are achieved, more especially, in the following examples.
A paper-drying cylinder of a yankee-dryer, having a diameter of 4.5 mm, and being subjected, at an operating temperature of about 250° C., to the frictional loading of the scraper blade, usually has to be removed and repaired after 3 or 4 months, for example, when a coating containing Mo-Cr is used thereon. By using a layer sprayed with the powders according to the invention, an increase in the effective life to 3 to 4 years is reached. The layer in this case has a thickness of 4 mm and is produced from the following alloy powders A and B, in a mixing ratio of A:B=60:40 percent by weight, by using an oxyacetylene torch. The composition of the alloys is indicated in all examples as a percentage by weight.
______________________________________Powder 1 Powder 2Alloy A (Hv 450) Alloy B (Hv 400)______________________________________Cr 20.0 Cr 16.0Mo 5.0 C 0.2W 0.5 Ni 2.0Si 1.0 Fe remainderC 1.5Ni remainder______________________________________
A guide or deflector roller in an installation for the cold rolling of metal sheets and having a diameter of 160 mm is provided, by the use of an oxyacetylene torch, with a 3 mm thick layer of the following alloy powders A and B, used in a mixing ratio A:B=70:30. The effective life of the roller is in this case increased tenfold. It appeared from a probe that martensite is being formed during the spraying.
______________________________________Powder 1 Powder 2Alloy A (Hv 350) Alloy B (Hv 280)______________________________________W 5.0 Ni 4.0Cr 28.0 Cr 11.0Mo 2.0 Si 0.5Si 1.0 Fe remainderC 1.0Co remainder______________________________________
A shaft with a diameter of 300 mm. and rotating in a plain bearing is provided by means of a plasma torch with a layer in a thickness of 2 mm. of the following alloy powders A and B, with a mixing ratio of A:B=80:20 and, as a result the effective life is increased tenfold as compared with a conventional steel shaft.
______________________________________Alloy A (Hv 420, HS 0.08) Alloy B (Hv 250, HS 0.15)______________________________________Ni 2.0 Cr 20Cr 27.0 Ni remainderW 8.0Si 0.5C 1.5Co remainder______________________________________
The sliding surface of a fast-running slide which is under low compressive stress is provided with a layer of the following alloy powders A and B, with the mixing ratio A:B=70:30, and thereby an excellent resistance to frictional wear is produced.
______________________________________Alloy A (Hv 250, HS 0.11) Alloy B (Hv 160, HS 0.06)______________________________________Ni 36 Cr 5Fe remainder Ni remainder______________________________________
Whereas the best possible hardness range in most cases of application is between 200 and 500 Hv, it is also possible, in accordance with the invention, to use alloys up to 650 Hv. The minimum difference in hardness is preferably 30 Hv and the minimum difference of the static coefficient of friction 0.02 μs. Furthermore, the alloy powders are advantageously free from boron, as a result of which, firstly, the danger of a formation of hard phases is eliminated and, secondly a formation of oxide between adjacent lamellae is avoided, which could, under pressure loading, lead to a slipping of the lamellae one upon the other. In all cases and more particularly when using iron-based alloy powders as less hard component, it is expedient to employ alloys which experience a change in structure during the spraying operation. Such a change in structure is advantageously one which results in a increase in volume. With iron based alloys more particularly the change in structure can be a martensitic modification or conversion, which has proved to be particularly advantageous for avoiding inherent tensions. Moreover, particularly good results are obtained with alloys of Ni, Cr, Mo, Si and C as one of the alloys of the mixture, and alloys of Fe, Cr and C as another alloy thereof. The Ni-Cr-Mo-Si-C alloys comprise advantageously an addition of tungsten and the Fe-Cr-C alloys an addition of nickel. Also alloys of Co, Cr, W, Si and C are advantageously used together with alloys of Fe, Cr and C, at least one of these alloys of the mixture having preferably an addition of nickel. Alternatively Ni, Cr, W, Si and C alloys are used with Fe, Cr, C alloys, the latter having preferably an addition of nickel.
The mixing ratio between the two different alloy powders is generally between 90:10 and 10:90, ratios from 70:30 to 30:70 percent by weight having been found to be the preferred range.
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|U.S. Classification||75/255, 427/455, 428/937, 427/452, 427/451|
|International Classification||B22F1/00, C23C4/08, C23C4/04, C23C4/06|
|Cooperative Classification||Y10S428/937, C23C4/08|
|Jan 18, 1982||AS||Assignment|
Owner name: CASTOLIN S A 1025 SAINT-SULPICE SWITZERLAND
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