Study on microstructure of Fe-Cr-C-Ni-B-Si coating formed by plasma jet surface metallurgy

The technical connotation of surface metallurgical technology by DC-Plasma-Jet is a kind of rapid, non-equilibrium metallurgical process which is similar to powder metallurgy. Accordingly the specialized equipment is developed all by ourselves, which is not subjected to limitation of solubility, melting point, density of constituents, therefore pre-alloy powders are not needed. The plasma surface metallurgical coating using Fe-Cr-C-Ni-B-Si mixed alloy powders has good wettability with substrate material. The metallurgical coating has apparent characteristics of rapid and layered crystallization from planar crystal-cell to dendritic transition zone at the interface, from dendritic crystal to equiaxed crystal in the midst, from equiaxed crystal to spike crystal on the surface. Its metastable microstructure is complex phase of supersaturated γ-(Fe,Ni) dendritic crystal solutioning great amount of alloy element and interdendritic eutectic structure (Cr, Fe)7(C,B)3 and γ-(Fe,Ni).