Lotfi-Khojasteh E, Elmkhah H, Nouri M, Imantalab O, Fattah-alhosseini A. The Study of the Electrochemical and Tribological Behaviors of CrN/AlCrN Coating Deposited by the Arc-PVD Technique. IJMSE 2022; 19 (4) :1-12
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This paper aims to study the tribological and electrochemical properties of the CrN/AlCrN nano-layer deposited on H13 tool steel. Arc physical technique was employed to deposit multilayer coating. X-ray diffraction technique, thermionic and field emission scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy have been used to determine the characteristics of the samples. To study the samples' wear behavior, coating adhesion, and surface hardness, reciprocating wear test, Rockwell-C test, and microhardness Vickers tester were employed, respectively. The measured values of the coefficient of friction and the calculated wear rates showed that the CrN/AlCrN multilayer coating has a much higher wear resistance than the uncoated sample. The coefficient of the friction of the coated sample was 0.53 and that of the uncoated sample was 0.78. Moreover, the wear rate of the coated H13 steel was about 127 times lower than the bare H13 steel sample. The results obtained from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and polarization tests demonstrated that the corrosion current density of the H13 steel sample was 8 μA/cm2 and that of the CrN/AlCrN multilayer-coated sample was 3 μA/cm2. In addition, the polarization resistance of the treated and the substrate specimens was estimated at 4.2 and 2.7 kΩ.cm2, respectively.
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- The wear rate of the CrN/AlCrN multi-layer coating is more than 127 times lower than the one for the H13 substrate sample.
- The Hardness of the CrN/AlCrN multi-layer coating is almost 7 times harder than H13 steel substrate.
- The polarization resistance of the CrN/AlCrN multi-layer coating is almost 1.7 times higher than H13 substrate sample.