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Rolling contact fatigue testing of thermally sprayed coatings

Conference ·
OSTI ID:160531
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  1. Tampere Univ. of Technology (Finland). Inst. of Materials Science

Two Rolling Contact Fatigue (RCF) test systems have been developed in order to compare coatings according to their service lives under high-load rolling contact. Experimental testing facilities of the three-roller and the two-roller type RCF test equipment are presented and problems involved with testing of thermally sprayed coatings are discussed. The aim of this three-year-project is to study reasons for development of coating micropitting and delamination of high-velocity oxyfuel (HVOF) and detonation gun sprayed coatings. Some observations of rolling contact fatigue behavior of detonation gun sprayed WC+12% Co coating subjected to a nearly pure rolling line contact at cyclic Hertzian stress level of approximately 410 MPa are made, but interpreting the results requires still more work.

OSTI ID:
160531
Report Number(s):
CONF-940684--; ISBN 0-87170-509-5
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English