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Effect of chromium content on microstructure, mechanical and erosion

properties of Fe-Cr-Ti-Mo-C-Si coating
Ratnesh Kumar Sharma a, Randip Kumar Das a, Shiv Ranjan Kumar b, *
a
Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad, India
b
Mechanical Engineering Department, JECRC University, Jaipur, India

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T

Keywords: In the present study, Fe alloy Fe-Cr-Ti-Mo-C-Si based coatings were deposited on 316L stainless steel substrate
Fe alloy using High Velocity Oxygen fuel coating. The microstructure analysis of powder and coated samples, adhesion
Chromium pull off strength, micro-hardness, and erosion wear resistance properties of the coatings were investigated. The
Coating
effect of adding chromium on the properties of coating has been studied. The finding of results indicated that the
Adhesion
Microstructure
hardness of the coating was much more i.e. approx. 239.78 % of hardness of substrate 316L stainless steel
Erosion wear material. Further, increase in 5 wt. % of chromium in the Fe based coating increased the hardness by 24.8%. The
adhesion pull off strength of coating material was increased by 70 % with the addition of 5 wt. % chromium. The
erosion wear rate of coating and substrate material was decreased with the increase in chromium content and
increased with the increase in impact velocity. However, in case of impingement angle, the erosion wear rate was
increased with the increase in impingement angle from 0 to 60◦ but later decreased at 90◦ . The study shows that
the addition of chromium in Fe-based coating can enhance hardness, adhesion pull off strength and wear
resistance properties.

1. Introduction
The synthesis of layer of alloy i.e. coating has attracted lot of
researcher for the development of material with superior mechanical,
physical and chemical properties. Fe alloy based coating material ex­
hibits better mechanical properties, chemical properties, magnetic
properties and tribological properties. In this regards, Fe alloys based
coating materials have shown enormous potential in wide range of ap­
plications such as petrochemical, aerospace, ocean, and electronic
communications. [1–4]. Chromium are generally added to the Fe based
alloy to enhance the corrosion resistance properties of material at low
cost [5]. Different types of Fe-based alloys have been used to fabricate
coatings by various coating preparation processes such as atmospheric
plasma spraying, high-velocity air-fuel spraying (HVAF), subsonic flame
spraying, high-velocity oxy-fuel spraying (HVOF), laser cladding, and
detonation gun spraying [6–10]. However, in most of the recent appli­
cations, Fe-based coatings were fabricated using high-velocity oxygen
fuel (HVOF) process and exhibited high resistance to corrosion and
wear, high hardness, good bonding strength [11–16]. The major
advantage of HVOF process for the fabrication of material is its high
cooling rate of 107-1010 K/s [17]. The advantage of HVOF also includes
better hardness, low porosity, low oxides content, high adhesion
(>70MPa) and high compression stress in coating [18]. Apart from the
selection of appropriate fabrication technique, there are other important
factors affecting performance of materials such as decrease in grain size
and increase in weight percentage of individual material being added
[19–21]. According to Zohdi et al. [22], the corrosion behavior of Fe
alloy based material was increased with the increase in Niobium (Nb)
content (0-4 wt. %). They concluded that addition of Nb and Cr in Fe
alloy based coating materials could make it excellent biomaterial as
compared to Ti-6Al-4V. Yao et al. observed that Fe59Cr12Nb5B20Si4
fabricated by HVOF-sprayed coating indicated better thermal resistance
along with good resistance and found promising application in vehicle
engine [23]. Also, Fe based coating showed good corrosion and wear
resistance with the addition of boron content and found suitable for
underground applications such as storage of spent nuclear fuels [24].
Increase in Chromium content forms an impenetrable oxide layer
which adheres on the metallic surface. Due to this chromium based Fe
alloy are heat and corrosion resistance [25]. Therefore, Fe alloy based
coatings have been developed to improve the heat resistance, wear
resistance and corrosion resistance of boiler, gas turbines, blade of hy­
draulic turbine, and to improve hardened surface [26]. Also,

* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: ranjan.shiv@gmail.com (S.R. Kumar).

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfin.2020.100820
Received 29 August 2020; Received in revised form 31 October 2020; Accepted 12 November 2020
Available online 19 November 2020
2468-0230/© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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High-chromium content based Fe alloy has wide applications in cement Table 2

production, the paper and pulp industry, mineral processing and others Formulation of Fe alloy based coating material.
[27]. Hence, the material performance can also be improved by adding Fe based Alloy Fe (wt. Mo (wt. C (wt. Si (wt. Ti (wt. Cr (wt.
layer by layer i.e. single or multi-layer coating, varying coating thick­ %) %) %) %) %) %)
ness, applying different coating deposition process etc. over base ma­ FeMoCSiTiCr-0 60 5 15 10 10 0
terial. In this regard there are lack of literature based on study of effect of FeMoCSiTiCr-5 55 5 15 10 10 5
individual elemental component especially chromium on microstruc­ FeMoCSiTiCr- 50 5 15 10 10 10
ture, hardness and wear resistance of Fe alloy based coating material. 10

Therefore, in the present study, chromium content was varied to

evaluate the effect of chromium on microstructure, mechanical and chemical energy for maintaining the temperature of the throat of the
wear resistance properties of Fe alloy based coating material. Further, gun, where Fe based alloy coating material was used in the semi-molten
the research work also focused on finding the effect of using HVOF state. The pressure of gases was controlled by the control panel, which
coating on microstructure and mechanical performance of coating also indicated the discharge rate. Nitrogen gas was used to cover at­
materials. mosphere during spraying. Powder to be sprayed was filled in powder
feeder and carried to the spray gun with the compressed air and nitrogen
2. Materials and method gas through the hoses. As per the detail given by coating manufacturer,
the HVOF process parameters are specified in Table 3.
2.1. Materials used
2.3. Powder and sample characterization
The experimental powder materials Fe, Ti, Cr, Mo, C and Si were
purchased from the Mittal Materials, Jaipur, India. The size of each
2.3.1. XRD analysis
powder material is in the range of 40 to 90 μm. Each powder was
The XRD patterns of powder and coating material were recorded to
weighed using a digital balance with an accuracy of 0.0001gm.The Fe
identify the phase composition using XRD (X-Ray Diffractometer)
alloy based coating materials (FeXTi10Mo5C15Si10) with varying
(Panalytical XPert Pro, Malvern, UK) with Cu Kα radiation. It was
chromium content (0-10 wt. %) were mixed and prepared using uniform
operated at an applied voltage of 45 kV with 40 mA current. The XRD
mixing machine. The steel plate of 316L was used as a substrate and
was used with a step size 0.03◦ and a step time of 147.39s in the angle
received from Narendra Metal Mumbai, India in the form of 300mm ×
range 20◦ to 90◦ .
300mm × 3 mm plate. The chemical composition of steel is presented in
Table 1. The steel plates of 100mm × 100mm × 3mm were prepared
2.3.2. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM)
using LASER cut from Tanishq Advertising Agency, Jaipur, India. The
The coated samples before erosion wear test were examined under
samples were also prepared in the size of 25mm × 25mm × 3mm and
SEM to study the elemental distribution and spectrum of constituents of
25mm × 20mm × 3mm for erosion testing.
coating material. The coated samples after erosion wear test were
examined under SEM to find out the effect of varying each of parameters
2.2. Coating preparation using HVOF thermal spraying on the performance of coated materials. The SEM characterization was
carried out by using a Field Emission Scanning electron microscope
Grit blasting was performed on the substrate before coating to (NOVA NANOSEM 450, Hillsboro, USA). The elemental distribution
remove any contamination from the surface of the substrate. It created a characteristics of the sprayed coating were analyzed by an Energy
rough surface with Surface roughness 6-8 µm Ra to increase the me­ Dispersive Spectrometer (EDS).
chanical interlocking of the sprayed coating to the substrate. Various
compositions of coating material were fabricated and presented in 2.4. Mechanical characterization
Table 2. Fe alloy based coating material was sprayed on stainless steel
plates (100 mm × 100 mm × 3 mm) using HVOF (High Velocity Oxygen 2.4.1. Micro-hardness
Fuel) thermal spray system at M/s Metalizing Export Company Jodhpur Vickers Micro-hardness of substrate and coating were measured
India using HVOF gun (Hypojet-HP2700 HVOF, Jodhpur, India). The using Vicker’s Hardness Tester (Model NEXUS 4303, INNOVATEST
HVOF thermal spray unit mainly consists of three parts: (i) gasses con­ Europe) under a 200g load with 10s dwell time. Average of five readings
trol panel, (ii) powder feeder, and (iii) spray gun. Oxygen gas and liquid was reported as a final hardness.
petroleum gas (LPG) were used for the combustion and producing
2.4.2. Adhesion pull off test
Table 1 The adhesion pull off test of coated samples were performed on
Composition of 316L Steel. Universal Testing Machine (UTM 40, FAN SERVICES Nasik India) as per
Element Percentage composition (wt. %) ASTM C633. For this test, samples were cut in the range of diameter of
28mm × 3mm. In this test, two cylindrical samples were glued together
C 0.024
Si 0.279 in which one sample was coated and other remained uncoated. Tensile
Mn 1.344 load was applied on the samples and the strength to pull off the samples
S 0.006 was calculated as tensile adhesion of samples. Average of five readings
P 0.025
Cr 16.337
Ni 10.175 Table 3
Mo 2.141 HVOF process parameters.
Cu 0.289
Hippojet 2700 (Name of HVOF Deposition Machine) Variable
Al 0.014
Ti 0.007 O2 Pressure 10 Kg/cm2
V 0.074 O2 Flow 250slpm
Co 0.053 LPG Pressure 6.5 kg/cm2
Nb 0.054 LPG Flow 60slpm
W 0.125 Powder 30 gm/min
Fe 69.025 Spray Distance 7”

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was reported. Table 4

Wear testing parameters.
2.5. Solid particle erosion wear testing Erodent particle Alumina

Average erodent particle size 50 µm

The erosion behavior of substrate and coated steel were evaluated Impact velocity 35, 70 & 105 m/s
using Air Jet Erosion Tester (Model: TR, DUCOM Bangalore, India). Erodent discharge 2 gm/min
Erosion test was performed as per ASTM G-76-13 test standard. The Test gas compressed air
schematic diagram for erosion wear test is depicted in Fig. 1. The erosion Standoff distance 10 mm
Nozzle diameter 1.5 mm
test parameters utilized in the present study are presented in Table 4. In Impingement angle 30◦ , 60◦ and 90◦
this erosion tester, the abrasive particles were accelerated from a nozzle Test duration Cycles of 2 min
by using a compressed air stream that caused them to impact on the Test temperature Room temperature
surface of the material (Fig. 1). To provide an initial standard surface Sample size (25 × 25 × 5) and (25 × 20 × 5) mm
condition before erosion test, all specimen were abraded using 0/0, 1/0,
2/0, 3/0, and 4/0 grades of emery paper. Cloth wheel polishing was
3. Results and discussion
done to obtain a mirror finish using a diamond paste. Each sample was
removed after every 2 min and washed with the acetone solution to
3.1. Structural characteristics of powder coating material
determine the mass loss. The impingement angles used for the tests were
30◦ , 60◦ and 90◦ . These angles were selected to evaluate the behavior of
Fig. 2 depicted the XRD (X-ray diffraction) pattern of the powder and
these materials at low, intermediate and high impingement angles. The
coating of Fe alloy based coating materials with 10 wt. % chromium
particle velocities of 35 m/s, 70 m/s and 105 m/s were used to replicate
(FeMoCSiTiCr-10). The XRD plot for the powder and coating showed
severe erosion condition, and an abrasive flow rate of 2 g/min were used
crystalline peak with some overlapping. The overlapping revealed the
to conduct the tests. The abrasive flow rate was measured by collecting
composite structure formation of some nanocrystalline phases present in
the abrasive in a container during 1 min. Before and after the tests, each
amorphous matrix. There are following observations from the XRD
specimen was weighed using a digital balance with an accuracy of
pattern in Fig. 2.
0.0001 g to observe the difference in weight loss for each test.
(1) The major peak in the crystalline phase in the powder composed
with the cubic structure was assigned to α-Fe (JCPDS Card No.:

Fig 1. Schematic diagram of Air Jet Erosion Wear test.

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Fig 2. XRD diagram of FeMoCSiTiCr powder and FeMoCSiTiCr coating prepared by HVOF thermal spraying.
65-4899) with the characteristic peak (110), (200) and (211) at
2θ values 44.26, 64.54 and 81.93 respectively.
(2) Hexagonal structure was assigned to Fe2Ti (PDF No.: 01-072-
9630) and characteristic peak (301) and (205) at 2θ values
68.91 and 76.15 respectively.
(3) Tetragonal structure was assigned to Fe-Cr (PDF No.: 00-005-
0708) and characteristic peak (002) and (542) at 2θ values
39.99 and 81.93 respectively.
(4) Tetragonal structure was assigned to SiO2 (PDF No.: 00-004-
0379) with characteristic peak (111), (201), (113), (310) and
(332) at 2θ values 28.07, 38.40, 46.98, 58.38 and 87.77 respec­
tively. The presence of such large amounts of TiO2 and SiO2 was
striking. It suggested the inclusion of oxidation of the alloy of Si
and Ti.
(5) Orthorhombic structure was assigned to TiO2 (PDF No.: 00-016-
0617) with characterize peak (220), (221), (151) and (004) at
2θ values 32.35, 42.33, 55.82 and 73.40 respectively and its
uniformity embedded in the amorphous matrix.
However, the XRD of coating material (Fig. 2) also showed the
presence of Fe2O3 (PDF No.: 00-033-0664) as a new crystalline phase
having Rhombohedral structure with the characteristic peak (211) and
(214) at 2θ values 56.26 and 62.70 respectively. The hybrid structure of
both amorphous and nanocrystalline phase played an important role in
affecting the performance of material.
Surprisingly after HVOF deposition there were crystalline peak in the
coating are notably less than those in the powder, but the intensity of the
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peak was increased with the improvement in the sharpness of the peak.
In the coatings structure, the presence of oxide phase was less than the
powders. The sharp peak with high intensity in the coating showed the
enhancement in the Crystalline behavior. This phenomenon was
attributed to rapid cooling attained by the particles in the molten state
during flattening solidification stage as compared with the gas atom­
izing processing [28,29].
3.2. Surface morphology of coating material
Fig. 3 indicated SEM images of Fe alloys based coating materials with
different chromium contents from 0 to 10 wt. % to study effect of
chromium on surface morphology. It can be seen from Fig. 3(a)–(c) that
there was presence of pores and voids with micro-globular structure in
alloys with up to 10 wt. % of Cr. However, increase in the Cr content
resulted in disappearance of pores and therefore, more refined surface
can be seen. In this regard, it can be concluded that increase in Cr
content transformed the crystal structure from nanocrystalline to
amorphous. Also, as chromium content was increased, the amorphous
phase progressed into crystalline structure. It clearly showed the pres­
ence of some heterogeneous phases like inter splat regions and unmelted
particles.
Further, elemental distribution of coating material FeMoCSiTiCr-10
at a particular point in SEM image of Fig. 4(a) was examined using
EDS mapping and the elemental spectrum are shown in Fig. 4(b). The
elemental spectrum clearly indicated the presence of major elements Fe,
Cr, Mo, Si, C and Ti in the coating which was also consistent with the
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Fig. 3. SEM images of FeMoCSiTiCr with (a) 0 wt. % Cr (b) 5 wt. % Cr (c) 10
wt. % Cr.
powder component. The SEM image of Fig. 4(a) indicated a uniform
structure with presence of some solid particles. Fig. 4(b) clearly exam­
ined a rich phase of α-Fe and Fe-Cr present in the coating structure. The
elemental distribution of Fe, C, Cr, Mo, Si and Ti are shown in Fig. 4(c)–
(i) respectively. It can be seen that there are uniform distribution of each
constituent element in the coating material fabricated over substrate
sample.
3.3. Determination of micro-hardness
The Micro-hardness analysis of substrate and Fe alloy based coating
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material with variation in chromium content was depicted in Fig 5. From
Fig 5a, it can be seen that the hardness of substrate was 208.6Hv
whereas the hardness of coating material FeMoCSiTiCr-0, FeMoCSiTiCr-
5, FeMoCSiTiCr-10 were, 500.2Hv, 624.28Hv, and 689.63Hv respec­
tively. Therefore, it can be observed that the hardness of coating was
239.78% more than that of base material. Further, increase in 5 wt. % of
chromium in the Fe based coating increased the hardness by 24.8%.
Increase in hardness due to addition of chromium was attributed to the
fact that in Fe alloy, chromium will oxidize first and form a protective
layer over steel which also prevent oxidation of iron. Presence of more
Cr and Mo formed dense structure in sintering induced lamella structure,
which can enhance the micro-hardness of coating. The optical micro­
scope image of Vicker’s micro-hardness indentation of substrate,
FeMoCSiTiCr-0, FeMoCSiTiCr-5, FeMoCSiTiCr-10 were depicted in
Fig. 5b–e respectively. The micro-hardness impressions of the Vicker’s
hardness test were clearly visible. It can be seen that as the chromium
content was increased, the brittleness was increased in the sample. Also,
decrease in impression dimension led to increase in micro-hardness of Fe
alloy based coating materials.
3.4. Determination of adhesion pull off strength
The schematic diagram of adhesion pull off test is shown in Fig. 6. In
this test, substrate was attached to lower bar and epoxy as an adhesive
was used as binding agent to hold coating with upper bar. Upper tensile
force was applied to measure pull off strength. Fig. 7 indicated that the
adhesion pull off strength of coating materials FeMoCSiTiCr-0, FeMoC­
SiTiCr-5, FeMoCSiTiCr-10 were 10.5, 17.86 and 20.06 N/mm2 respec­
tively. It can be revealed that the adhesion pull off strength was
increased with the increase in chromium content. The adhesion pull off
strength of coating material was increased by 70% with the addition of 5
wt. % chromium. The introduction of chromium enhanced the binding
strength because Cr has high activation energy due to its electronic
configuration in the ground state as d5s1, with stable semi- occupied
orbitals. Therefore, only higher micro-hardness does not guarantee
higher wear resistance, because if there is good adhesion among parti­
cles in alloy, an extremely rigid layer can be destroyed at much faster
rate.
3.5. Determination of steady state erosion wear
The steady state erosion wear tests were performed to evaluate effect
of each of wear parameter such as impact velocity, impingement angle
and chromium content by keeping other parameter constant on the
erosion behavior of Fe alloy based coating materials.
The effect of varying impact velocity on the erosion wear rate is
depicted on Fig. 8. During the steady state condition, other parameters
such as time of impact, impingement angle erodent discharge were kept
constant at 10 minute, 90◦ , erodent discharge 2 gm/min respectively.
From Fig. 8, it was observed that the erosion wear rate was increased
with the increment in impact velocity. The increase in wear rate with the
impact velocity is in consistent with the Hutching et al. which stated that
there exists a power relationship between erosion wear rate and impact
velocity [30]. It can be also seen that the erosion wear rate of substrate
was much higher than that of coating which was attributed to the much
more hardness of coating material as compared to substrate. It was
further revealed that as the chromium content was increased from 0 to
10 wt. %, the erosion wear rate was decreased. Hence, Fe alloy based
coating material containing 10 wt. % chromium content has indicated
least erosion wear rate. The low wear rate of FeMoCSiTiCr-10 was
attributed to more binding capacity and more micro-hardness of
chromium.
The effect of varying impingement angle on the erosion wear rate is
depicted on Fig. 9. During the steady state condition, other parameters
such as time of impact, impact velocity, and erodent discharge were kept
constant at 10 minute, 105m/sec, and erodent discharge 2 gm/min
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Fig. 4. Micro-morphology of FeMoCSiTiCr-10 coating surface (a) elemental spectrum for FeMoCSiTiCr-10, (c) EDS mapping for element Fe, (d) EDS mapping for
element C (e) EDS mapping for element Cr (f) EDS mapping for element Mo, (g), EDS mapping for element Si (h) EDS mapping for element Ti.

respectively. The impingement angle affects the erosion wear rate
significantly. Fig. 9 indicated that the erosion rate was increased with
the increase in impingement angle up to 60◦ after that it slowed down
for all the substrate and Fe alloy based coating materials with chromium
content. Therefore, it can be revealed that the maximum erosion wear
rate was observed at 60◦ which was consistent with the work by Gautam
et al. [31] who observed that maximum erosion wear occurred at 60◦ .
This trend can be attributed to the fact that erosion wear at low
impingement angle was mainly influenced by micro-cutting erosion
mechanism but at higher impingement angle, the wear rate mainly de­
pends upon plastic deformation only. In contrast, it was also reported
that there was continuous decrease in erosion wear rate of WC-Cr3C2-Ni
with the increase in the angle of impact of particles. They suggested that
erosion wear included both ductile erosion and brittle erosion. Brittle
erosion occurred at low impingement angle involving cutting and
ploughing which was related to the hardness of the specimen [32–34]. It

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Fig 5. Effect of varying Chromium content on Micro-Hardness of Fe based alloy.
is general trend that more the hardness, less is the wear. Further, it was
also revealed from Fig. 9 that substrate had more erosion wear rate for
different impingement angles than that of Fe based coating material. The
wear rate also decreased with the increase in chromium content.
From Fig. 9, it can be revealed that as angle of impingement was
increased in the range of 0-60◦ , even the trend showed up to 75◦
approximately, the erosion wear rate was increased. The increase in
erosion wear rate was due to cutting wear phenomena. However, further
increase in impingement angle led to decrease in erosion wear rate for
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all the coating material except FeMoCSiTiCr-10. The decrease in erosion
wear rate was due to plastic deformation only. The continuous increase
in erosion wear rate of FeMoCSiTiCr-10 with the increase in impinge­
ment angle from 0-90◦ may be attributed to semi ductile mechanism of
erosion [35].
3.6. Microstructure analysis of the steady state erosion wear
After steady state erosion wear test, the SEM images of Fe based
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Fig 6. Schematic diagram of adhesion pull off test.
Fig 7. Effect of varying Chromium content on Adhesion Pull off Strength of Fe
based alloy.
coating material FeMoCSiTiCr-10 for varying impact velocity at 35m/
sec, 70m/sec and 105m/sec at time of impact 10 minute, impingement
angle 90◦ and erodent discharge 2 gm/min were depicted in Fig. 10(a)–
(c) respectively. It can be seen from Fig. 10(a) to (b), at low impact
velocity, the worn surface has less crater and grooves. However, From
Fig 10(c), it can be seen that at higher impact velocity, there was
extensive plastic deformation showing deep craters, lips and platelet.
Some embedded erodent particles were present on the surface which
indicated the ductile nature of alloy. Therefore, it can be concluded that
more plastically deformed surface and more ploughing and micro-
cutting led to more surface wear at high impact velocity.
After steady state erosion wear test, the SEM images of Fe based
coating material FeMoCSiTiCr-10 for varying impingement angle 30◦ ,
60◦ and 90◦ at impact velocity of 105m/sec, time of impact 10 minute,
and erodent discharge 2 gm/min were depicted in Fig. 10(d)–(f)
respectively. It can be seen from Fig. 10 (d) that at low impact velocity,
the scratches and craters are the least shallow due to smaller normal
stress. Further, when impingement angle was increased from 30◦ to 60◦
as shown in Fig. 10(e), deeper scars, crater and lips are visible due to
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Fig. 8. Variation in erosion wear rate with impact velocity for Fe alloy based
coating with varying chromium content.
Fig. 9. Variation in erosion wear rate with impingement angle for Fe alloy
based coating with varying chromium content.
relatively greater normal stress and shear stress. Ploughing due to hard
abrasive particle can be also seen. At last when impingement angle is
increased from 60◦ to 90◦ as shown in Fig. 10 (f), scratches and craters
are less than those in Fig. 10 (e).Lips are scarcely seen in this condition
due to absence of shear stress.
4. Conclusions
Fe alloy based coating materials with different chromium content
were prepared using High Velocity Oxygen Fuel coating. The prepared
samples were characterized for microstructure, mechanical properties
and erosion wear properties. The XRD results showed that crystalline
peaks were sharper in HVOF coated sample than in uncoated sample. It
revealed enhancement in crystalline behavior of the coating in the
amorphous matrix. Increase in chromium content improved the micro-
hardness and adhesion pull off strength of Fe based coating materials.
The erosion wear rate of coating material was decreased with the in­
crease in chromium content and increased with the increase in impact
velocity. However, in case of impingement angle, the erosion wear rate
was increased for the increase in impingement angle from 0 to 60◦ but
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Fig. 10. SEM images of Fe based coating material FeMoCSiTiCr-10 for varying impact velocity at (a) 35m/sec, (b) 70m/sec and (c) 105m/sec by keeping time of
impact 10 minute, impingement angle 90◦ and erodent discharge 2 gm/min and varying impingement angles at (d) 30◦ , (e) 60◦ and (f) 90◦ by keeping impact
velocity of 105m/sec, time of impact 10 minute, and erodent discharge 2 gm/min.

later decreased at 90◦ . The erosion wear at an impingement angle of 60◦ - original draft.
was mainly influenced by micro-cutting erosion mechanism by normal
and shear stresses and at impingement angle at 90◦ , the wear rate mainly Declaration of Competing Interest
depends upon plastic deformation only due to normal stress.
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