24 Results Found

The adiabatic shear sensitivity of ultra-high-strength steels is closely related to their thermal conductivity. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the effects of alloying elements on the thermal conductivity of ultra-high-strength steel. In th...

Wire arc additively manufactured (WAAM) Ni-based materials have good properties but are costly and hard to cut, leading to difficulties in machining after welding and wasting the materials. To overcome these shortcomings, this work proposes a method...

As one of the lightest structural metals, the application breadth of aluminum alloys is, to some extent, constrained by their relatively low wear resistance and hardness. However, laser cladding technology, with its low dilution rate, compact structu...

Fe-based amorphous alloys with excellent mechanical properties are suitable for preparing wear resistant coatings by laser cladding. In this study, a novel Fe-based amorphous coating was prepared by laser cladding on 3Cr13 stainless steel substrates....

Alumina-based coatings have been claimed as being an advantageous modification in industrial ethylene furnaces. In this work, on-line experimentally measured coking rates of a commercial coating (CoatAlloy™) have pointed out its superiority com...

Titanium alloys are widely used in various structural materials due to their lightweight properties. However, the low wear resistance causes significant economic losses every year. Therefore, it is necessary to implement wear-resistant protection on...

Results of creep tests of two Fe-27 at. % Al-based alloys with additions of 2.7 and 4.8 at. % of niobium conducted in the temperature range from 650 °C to 900 °C in the authors’ laboratory are presented. The purpose of the study is to s...

Low-coking reactor material technologies are key for improving the performance and sustainability of steam crackers. In an attempt to appraise the coking performance of an alternative Ti–base alloy during ethane steam cracking, an experimental...

Composite powder particles (CPP) preset on base metals were fused with a solid wire to form a melt by the intense heat provided by the arc. An X-ray diffractometer, scanning electron microscopy, and energy dispersive spectrometer were employed to inv...

Soil preparation tools are subject to severe abrasion. The wear resistance of various industrial components can be improved using the hardfacing technique. The improvement in hardfacing wear resistance depends on the microstructure, i.e., the chemica...

Pipeline steels under cyclic loading in corrosive environments are prone to wear and corrosion–wear synergy. Low-dilution, high-reliability Ni-based Cold Metal Transfer (CMT) overlays are therefore required to ensure structural integrity. In th...

The use of laser cladding technology to prepare coatings of AlCoCrFeNi high-entropy alloy holds enormous potential for application. However, the cladding quality will have a considerable effect on the properties of the coatings. In this study, consid...

Heat input, a crucial factor in the optimization of high-temperature thermocouple laser welding, has a significant impact on the appearance and mechanical properties of dissimilar welded joints involving stainless-steel- and nickel-based alloys. This...

Iron-based soft magnetic composites (SMCs) are the key components of high-frequency electromagnetic systems. Selecting a suitable insulating oxide layer and ensuring the integrity and homogeneity of the heterogeneous core–shell structure of SMC...

High-power disk laser welding a steel plate using the Inconel 82 (IN82) filler wire with a 1.2 and 3.0 m/min feeding rate has been investigated in the experiment. The rapid thermal cycle combined with convection induced by the keyhole mechanism in la...

The versatility of the template-assisted electrodeposition technique to fabricate complex three-dimensional networks made of interconnected nanowires allows one to easily stack ferromagnetic and non-magnetic metallic layers along the nanowire axis. T...

CoCrFeNiTiAl high-entropy alloy coatings have been prepared by laser cladding technology based on response surface methodology (RSM). The results show that the effects of laser power, cladding speed, and pulse width on the dilution rate and microhard...

Solution strengthening is an effective strategy to improve the properties of martensitic steels (MSs). However, the microscopic mechanism of solution strengthening between Cr and interstitial atoms (IAs; C/N/O) remains elusive in dilute Fe-Cr system....

High-entropy alloy (HEA) coatings on the surface of low-alloy steel by laser cladding can improve the corrosion and wear resistance, and the performance can be further improved by adding the Cr element. However, the effect of Cr content on the micros...

Fe-Cr-based soft magnetic alloy (SMA) monolayer coatings with high saturation magnetization (Ms) above 1.3 T were deposited onto AISI 1010 substrate by co-axial powder feeding plasma transferred arc (PTA) welding, using FeCrBSi self-fluxing powders F...

Exsolved perovskites can be obtained from lanthanum ferrites, such as La_0.6Sr_0.4Fe_0.8Co_0.2O₃, as result of Ni doping and thermal treatments. Ni can be simply added to the perovskite by an incipient wetness method. Thermal treatments that favor the ex...

Due to the rapid advancement in processing efficiency, high-speed laser cladding has demonstrated significant potential in the repair and protection of various substrates. In this study, we established a comprehensive evaluation model for the coating...

The initial melting quality of a high-speed laser cladding layer has an important impact on its post-treatment and practical application. In this study, based on the repair of hydraulic support columns of coal mining machines, the influence of high-s...

This mineralogical and fluid inclusion study was conducted on an Au-bearing quartz–sulfide vein encountered in the deep parts of the Bytíz deposit in the Příbram uranium and base-metal district, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. The samples were taken...