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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Powder Plasma Transferred Arc Welding of Ni-Si-B+60 wt%WC and Ni-Cr-Si-B+45 wt%WC for Surface Cladding of Structural Steel.

Augustine Nana Sekyi Appiah, Oktawian Bialas, Artur Czupryński, Marcin Adamiak

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Augustine Nana Sekyi AppiahMaterials Research Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 18A Konarskiego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-2799-6998
Oktawian BialasDepartment of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 18A Konarskiego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4874-9160
Artur CzupryńskiWelding Department, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 18A Konarskiego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-9337-8325
Marcin AdamiakMaterials Research Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, 18A Konarskiego Street, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-8851-2091

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Abstract

Increasing demand for sustainable approaches to mining and raw material extraction, has prompted the need to explore advanced methods of surface modification for structural steels used in the extractive industry. The technology of powder plasma transferred arc welding (PPTAW), was used in this study as a surface modification technique to improve upon the abrasive wear resistance of structural steel grade EN S355. PPTAW process parameters, namely, plasma transferred arc (PTA) current and plasma gas flow rate (PGFR), were varied, and the effects of the variation were studied and used as criteria for selecting optimum conditions for further studies and parametric reproducibility. Two metal matrix composite (MMC) powders were used in the process, having compositions of Ni-Si-B+60 wt%WC (PG) and Ni-Cr-Si-B+45 wt%WC (PE). Microstructural observation under a scanning electron microscope (SEM) revealed a dendritic, multi-directional microstructure consisting of partially dissolved primary tungsten carbide particles and secondary tungsten carbide precipitates within the MMC solid solution. The hardness of the surface layers was higher than that of a reference AR400 steel by more than 263 HV. Final surface layers obtained from the MMC powders had abrasive wear resistance up to 5.7 times that of abrasion-resistant reference AR400 steel. Alloying the MMC matrix with chromium increased the hardness by 29.4%. Under the same process conditions, MMC powder with 60 wt% WC reinforcement had better abrasive wear resistance by up to 45.8% more than the MMC powder with 45 wt% WC.

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abrasive wearhardnessmicrostructurePPTAWprecipitationSEMsurface layer

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PMID35888424
PMCPMC9324427

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