D-gun Sprayed Fe-Al Single Particle Solidification

Abstract

Abstract Some Fe-Al particles less than 50 μm in diameter were deposited onto the steel substrate by means of the D-gun spraying. A solidification mechanism of an individual particle is described. The particle subjected to the description contained nominally 63 at.% Al. The description was preceded by the TEM / SAED analysis of both the Fe-Al coating and Ni-20Cr interlayer. The whole number of the analyzed particles was partially melted during the deposition. The solidification products like: amorphous phase sub-layer, oscillatory sub-layer which contains two types lamellae distributed alternately and typically non-equilibrium phase sub-layer were revealed. In the micro scale, solidification was considered as a process which occurred in two directions: towards the substrate and towards the non-melted particle part. Both solidification processes underwent the positive thermal gradients. The boron addition was localized within the eutectic precipitates pushed and then rejected by the solid/liquid interface of the solidifying non-equilibrium phase. The proposed model is a general one and therefore can be applied to other systems ;description.