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Structure and tribocorrosion behavior of CrMoSiCNnanocomposite coating with low C content in artificial seawater

Show Author's Information Yongqiang FU1,  Fei ZHOU1( ),  Maoda ZHANG1,  Qianzhi WANG1,  Zhifeng ZHOU2
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Helicopter Transmission, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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microstructure, mechanical properties, tribocorrosion, CrMoSiCN coating, seawater
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FU Y, ZHOU F, ZHANG M, et al. Structure and tribocorrosion behavior of CrMoSiCNnanocomposite coating with low C content in artificial seawater. Friction, 2021, 9(6): 1599-1615. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40544-020-0445-5
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CrMoSiCN nanocomposite coatings with a low C content were prepared on Ti-6Al-4V using an unbalanced magnetron sputtering system, and their corresponding microstructures, mechanical properties, and tribocorrosion performance were evaluated in detail. The results revealed that the CrMoSiCN coating had a compact nanocomposite microstructure consisting of CrN and Mo2N nanocrystallites, (Cr, Mo)N solid solution, and Si-C-N amorphous phases. Moreover, the coating exhibited superior mechanical properties with a hardness of 28.6 GPa and an elastic modulus of 273 GPa, owing to the solid solution strengthening effect. The tribocorrosion test results showed that the dominant failure of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy was caused by the corrosion contribution to wear behaviors (synergistic effect). The CrMoSiCN nanocomposite coating could effectively alleviate the material loss caused by the synergistic effect of corrosion and wear behaviors, leading to pure wear behaviors during the entire tribocorrosion process. The corresponding tribocorrosion mechanisms under the open circuit potential and dynamic polarization conditions were discussed in terms of their tribocorrosion behaviors.


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Structure and tribocorrosion behavior of CrMoSiCNnanocomposite coating with low C content in artificial seawater

Show Author's information Yongqiang FU1, Fei ZHOU1( ), Maoda ZHANG1, Qianzhi WANG1, Zhifeng ZHOU2
National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Helicopter Transmission, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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CrMoSiCN nanocomposite coatings with a low C content were prepared on Ti-6Al-4V using an unbalanced magnetron sputtering system, and their corresponding microstructures, mechanical properties, and tribocorrosion performance were evaluated in detail. The results revealed that the CrMoSiCN coating had a compact nanocomposite microstructure consisting of CrN and Mo2N nanocrystallites, (Cr, Mo)N solid solution, and Si-C-N amorphous phases. Moreover, the coating exhibited superior mechanical properties with a hardness of 28.6 GPa and an elastic modulus of 273 GPa, owing to the solid solution strengthening effect. The tribocorrosion test results showed that the dominant failure of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy was caused by the corrosion contribution to wear behaviors (synergistic effect). The CrMoSiCN nanocomposite coating could effectively alleviate the material loss caused by the synergistic effect of corrosion and wear behaviors, leading to pure wear behaviors during the entire tribocorrosion process. The corresponding tribocorrosion mechanisms under the open circuit potential and dynamic polarization conditions were discussed in terms of their tribocorrosion behaviors.

Keywords: microstructure, mechanical properties, tribocorrosion, CrMoSiCN coating, seawater

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Received: 05 July 2020
Revised: 07 August 2020
Accepted: 18 August 2020
Published: 28 November 2020
Issue date: December 2021

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51775271) and National Key Laboratory Project of Science and Technology on Helicopter Transmission (Grant No. HTLA19G04). We would like to thank them for their financial support.

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