Browsing by Author "Matthews, N"

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    Residual stress in coatings produced by cold spray
    (Trans Tech Publications, 2013-11-21) Luzin, V; Spencer, K; Zhang, M; Matthews, N
    Cold spray technology is used to produce metal coatings with a variety of functions, including surface corrosion protection, improvement of wear resistance, etc. Cold sprayed materials exhibit a wide range of behaviours resulting in large variation of spraying efficiency, coating properties, quality and performance in service. Residual stress, being a result and attribute of the deposition process, can be studied to test whether the coating is in tension/compression stress state and also to provide information about the thermo-mechanical history of the material during the deposition process. Residual stress distributions in a variety of coating materials have been studied by neutron diffraction. Through-thickness residual stress profiles show that the stress magnitude varies significantly and depends mainly on the mechanical properties of the coating material.
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    Residual stresses in cold spray Al coatings: the effect of alloying and of process parameters
    (Elsevier Science, 2012-05-25) Spencer, K; Luzin, V; Matthews, N; Zhang, MX
    Al and Al alloy cold spray coatings were deposited on Mg substrates using two different cold spray systems – a Kinetic Metallization system (convergent barrel, sonic nozzle) and a CGT system (convergent-divergent barrel, supersonic nozzle). The residual stress profiles in the coatings were measured using neutron diffraction with high spatial resolution. In the first part of the study, the residual stress profile in pure Al coatings was compared when sprayed using the Kinetic Metallization system (using both helium and nitrogen as the driving gas), and with the CGT system using nitrogen gas. In this way the effect of impact velocity and process temperature was studied. In the second part of the study, the residual stress profile was compared in coatings of pure Al, 7075 Al and 6061 Al sprayed using the same process conditions in the CGT system. The residual stress profiles depend more on the alloy content, i.e. intrinsic resistance to plastic deformation, than on the processing conditions, and this is interpreted using a simple model that incorporates the effect of peening stresses in the cold spray process. © 2012, Elsevier Ltd.