Título
Effect of the average energy on WC grain growth of WC-10Co-4Cr composite by laser cladding
Autor
ENRIQUE ALEJANDRO LOPEZ BALTAZAR
Haideé Ruiz Luna
VCTOR H. BALTAZAR-HERNANDEZ
Jose Jorge Ruiz Mondragon
Juansethi Ibarra Medina
Juan Manuel Alvarado-Orozco
Nivel de Acceso
Acceso Abierto
Identificador alterno
Referencia de publicación
URL/https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4701/9/12/1245
Materias
WC-10Co-4Cr - (PALABRA CLAVE DEL AUTOR) Laser cladding - (PALABRA CLAVE DEL AUTOR) Average energy per unit area - (PALABRA CLAVE DEL AUTOR) Grain growth - (PALABRA CLAVE DEL AUTOR) INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA - (CTI) CIENCIAS TECNOLÓGICAS - (CTI) TECNOLOGÍA METALÚRGICA - (CTI) OTRAS - (CTI) OTRAS - (CTI)
Resumen o descripción
In the present study, the microstructure evolution of WC-10Co-4Cr powder deposited on AISI-SAE 1020 steel substrate by laser cladding was evaluated, considering the effect of average energy per unit area. Single tracks were obtained by employing a Yb: YAG laser system with selected processing parameters. All samples were sectioned in the transverse direction for further characterization of the cladding. Results showed that dilution lay within 15% and 25%, whereas porosity was measured below 12%. According to microstructural analyses, considerable grain growth is developed within the central area of the cladding (namely, the inner region); additionally, the development of a triangular and/or polygonal morphology for WC particles along with a clear reduction in hardness was observed when employing a high average energy. It is worth noting that, in spite of the rapid thermal cycles developed during laser cladding of WC-10Co-4Cr, grain growth is attributed to a coalescence mechanism due to complete merging of WC into larger particles. Finally, the presence of small round or ellipsoidal particles within the inner region of the cladding suggested that non-merged particles occurred due to both an inhomogeneous dispersion and the lack of faced-shaped WC particles.
Author contributions: Conceptualization-data curation, E.A.L.-B.; E.A.L.-B. and V.H.B.-H.; Formal analysis, V.H.B.-H. and J.J.R.-M.; Investigation, E.A.L.-B. and H.R.-L.; Methodology, E.A.L.-B., H.R.-L., V.H.B.-H., J.J.R. M., J.I.-M. and J.M.A.-O.; Validation, E.A.L.-B.; Writing—original draft, E.A.L.-B. and V.H.B.-H.; Writing—review and editing, J.I.-M. and J.M.A.-O.
Funding: Enrique A. López Baltazar wants to thank the Mexican National Council on Science and Technology (Conacyt) for the financial support during this research project. This research was funded by Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, CIDESI and COMIMSA, México. This project was partially funded by CONACYT AEM Project 275781.
Acknowledgments: Haideé Ruiz-Luna wants to thank the program Cátedras-Conacyt and the projects no. 254731-INFRA-2015 and 270613-INFRA-2016. Juansethi Ibarra-Medina is commissioned as a CONACYT Research Fellow at the Center for Engineering and Industrial Development (CIDESI) (Project: Catedras 2017 - num. 57). Juansethi Ibarra-Medina also acknowledges the Conacyt Consortium in Additive Manufacturing (CONMAD) for the use of experimental facilities for this work.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Editor
MDPI
Fecha de publicación
2019
Tipo de publicación
Artículo
Versión de la publicación
Versión publicada
Recurso de información
Formato
application/pdf
Fuente
Metals, v. 9, no. 12, no. 1245
Idioma
Inglés
Relación
&
Alvarado-Orozco, J. M. (2019). Effect of the average energy on wc grain growth of wc-10co-4cr composite by laser cladding. Metals, 9(12), 1245. https://doi.org/10.3390/met9121245
Audiencia
Público en general
Sugerencia de citación
López-Baltazar, E. A., Ruiz-Luna, H., Baltazar-Hernández, V. H., Ruiz-Mondragón, J. J., Ibarra-Medina, J.,
Repositorio Orígen
CIATEQ Digital
Descargas
242