Parameter Study on Friction Surfacing of AISI316Ti Stainless Steel over EN8 Carbon Steel and Its Effect on Coating Dimensions and Bond Strength

George S N Rethnam; Subramanian Manivel; Vijay K Sharma; Chidurala Srinivas; Asif Afzal; Abdul Razak R K; Sagr Alamri; C Ahamed Saleel

doi:10.3390/ma14174967

Parameter Study on Friction Surfacing of AISI316Ti Stainless Steel over EN8 Carbon Steel and Its Effect on Coating Dimensions and Bond Strength

Materials (Basel). 2021 Aug 31;14(17):4967. doi: 10.3390/ma14174967.

Authors

George S N Rethnam¹, Subramanian Manivel¹, Vijay K Sharma², Chidurala Srinivas³, Asif Afzal^{4

5}, Abdul Razak R K⁴, Sagr Alamri^{6

7}, C Ahamed Saleel⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mechanical Engineering, St. Joseph's College of Engineering, Chennai 600119, India.
² Department of Physics, Shyam Lal College, University of Delhi, New Delhi 110032, India.
³ Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vaageswari College of Engineering, Telengana 505481, India.
⁴ Department of Mechanical Engineering, P. A. College of Engineering, (Affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi), Mangaluru 574153, India.
⁵ Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Technology, Glocal University, Delhi-Yamunotri Marg, SH-57, Mirzapur Pole, Saharanpur District, Uttar Pradesh 247121, India.
⁶ Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Khalid University, Abha 61421, Saudi Arabia.
⁷ Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-3903, USA.

Abstract

Friction surfacing is a solid-state coating process that uses plastic deformation to improve the efficiency of the core metallic pattern, resulting in fine-grained coatings with superior wear and corrosion properties. This article focuses on the development of inherently homogeneous, non-diluted coating of AISI316Ti stainless steel above EN8 and also encloses the empirical relationship for the prediction of bond strength (B_s), coating thickness (C_t), and coating width (C_w). The key individualities for bonding geometry were believed to be the process parameters such as rotational speed (rpm), traverse speed (mm/s), and axial load (kN). The effect of input parameters on the bond's external dimensions and strength was investigated using a multi-objective optimization approach through experimentation. The bond's strength improved as the coating thickness was reduced and the coating width was increased. The grain-refined coatings superimposing martensitic microstructure with no deposition of carbide particles added value to the metallurgical study using the scanning electron microscope.

Keywords: AISI316Ti stainless steel over EN8 carbon steel; bond strength; depth of coating and coating width; friction surfacing; response surface methodology.