Abstract

Atmospheric plasma spraying (APS) is one of the most preferred coating processes, which comes under thermal spraying technology. It has a wide range of applications due to its versatility in surface modifications. By the APS technique, different high-temperature application materials like cermets, and ceramics, can be coated on a substrate whose surface properties have to be modified in an extreme environment. Ni50Ti50 (at.%) alloy became more focus of interest for researchers and industrialists due to their two extraordinary smart properties such as shape memory effect (SME), and superelasticity (SE) which can protect any structural materials from catastrophic failure. Compared to various deposition routes, APS is an economical process to apply NiTi on mild steel. NiTi smart alloy also exhibits good wear resistance, corrosion resistance, damping behaviour, and high load-bearing capacity. In terms of mechanical properties, it has high strength and hardness at high temperatures. Owing to these properties, NiTi alloy can be used to protect structural materials such as mild steel from catastrophic failure. In this study, mild steel was coated at 100 °C, 200 °C, 300 °C and 400 °C preheating temperatures by APS techniques using an equiatomic NiTi alloy. The surface and interface characterization were performed using an optical microscope, SEM, XRD, Hardness test and 3D optical profilometer. It was found that along with the desired NiTi phase, some of the intermetallic and oxide phases are responsible for the mechanical strength. The surface and interface morphologies show that NiTi splat formation by APS results in better surface bonding and dense coating. With increase in the substrate temperature, the hardness of a coating interface increases with decrease in the number of pores at coating interface.

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