Nanostructured wear resistant coating for reversible cultivator shovels: An experimental investigation

Journal Article · Wed Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4945249· OSTI ID:22591120

Dave, V., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[1]; Rao, G. P., E-mail: [e-mail]; Tiwari, G. S., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[2]; Sanger, A., E-mail: [e-mail]; Kumar, A., E-mail: [e-mail]; Chandra, R., E-mail: [e-mail] ^[3]

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1. Department of Electrical Engineering,College of Technology and Engineerin, MPUAT Udaipur, 313001,India (India)
2. Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, MPUAT Udaipur, 313001,India (India)
3. Institute Instrumentation Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee 247667 (India)

Cultivator, one of the agriculture farm tool, extensively suffers from the wear problem. In this paper, we report nanostructured chromium nitrite (CrN) coating for the cultivator shovels to mitigate wear problem. The (CrN) coating was developed using DC magnetron sputtering technique at 200 °C. The structural, morphological, hydrophobic and wear properties were investigated using X-ray diffractometer, scanning electron microscope, contact angle goniometer and custom designed soil bin assembly. The XRD reveals that the deposited coating was polycrystalline in nature with cubic structure. Also, The deposited coating was found to be anti wear resistant as well as hydrophobic in nature. The gravimetric wear for the coating developed at 200 °C coated was found out to be 8.15 gm and for non coated it was 14.48 gm tested for 100 hrs. The roughness of the coating plays an important role in determining the hydrophobicity of the coated film. Roughness and contact angle measured for 200 °C coated shovel was found out to be 11.17 nm and 105 ° respectively.

• OSTI ID: 22591120
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1724, Issue 1; Conference: ETMN-2015: 2. international conference on emerging technologies: Micro to nano 2015, Rajasthan (India), 24-25 Oct 2015; Other Information: (c) 2016 Author(s); Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
CHROMIUM NITRIDES
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE
DIRECT CURRENT
MORPHOLOGY
NANOSTRUCTURES
POLYCRYSTALS
ROUGHNESS
SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
SPUTTERING
THIN FILMS
WEAR RESISTANCE
X-RAY DIFFRACTION