Effect of spray distance on the corrosion-fatigue behavior of a medium-carbon steel coated with a Colmonoy 88 alloy deposited by HVOF thermal spray

The present work has been conducted in order to determine the influence of the spray distance, on the corrosion-fatigue behavior of a SAE 1045 steel substrate coated with a Ni base coating deposited by high velocity oxygen fuel (HVOF) thermal spray. The spray distances employed in the present investigation were of 380, 425 and 470 mm. The mechanical properties of the coated systems were evaluated by means of tensile and corrosion-fatigue tests conducted with cylindrical samples. Corrosion-fatigue tests were carried out under rotating bending conditions (R = -1), at a frequency of 50 Hz and maximum alternating stresses in the range of 250-420 MPa, employing a 3 wt.% NaCl solution. The results indicate that varying the spray distance in the range of 380-470 mm has apparently no significant influence on the corrosion-fatigue behavior of the coated systems. However, the presence of the Ni base coating gives rise to a significant increase in the corrosion-fatigue life of the coated substrate, in comparison with the uncoated steel. Such an increase varies between similar to 90 and 440% in the interval of maximum alternating stresses investigated in the present work. Also, the coated systems exhibited a better corrosion-fatigue performance in comparison with the same steel substrate coated with an electrolytic hard chromium (EHC) deposit. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.