Two ultrafine-grained W-Cu alloys and two coarse-grained W-Cu alloys were prepared to study the effect of tungsten grain refinement on the interface characteristics between coating and W-Cu alloys. The experimental results show that in the coarse-grained W-Cu alloys, the tungsten phase near the surface is easy to form pits and cracks during impact loading, while the fine-grained tungsten alloy is not prone to this phenomenon. Simulations show that refining tungsten grains can not only reduce the impact absorption energy, but also increase the contact area of tungsten and copper phases, thereby reducing the fracture probability of tungsten phases and improving the dynamic mechanical properties of the W-Cu alloys under impact loading. The tested results show that the shear strength of gold studs on the coating is increased by about 33%, after grain refinement for the W-Cu alloys.
Keywords: W-Cu alloy; coarse-grained; coating; dynamic impact; ultrafine-grained.