Effects of Bond Coating on NiCrBSi-Mo Composite Functional Coating Properties in Plasma Spraying NiCrBSi-Mo/Ni Coating

Nickel-based bond coating and composite functional coating were sprayed on leaf blade steel material FV520B successively by using air plasma spraying system. NiCrBSi-Mo powder deposition rate, coating porosity, bonding strength and surface hardness were tested. The results indicate that, for the NiCrBSi-Mo/Ni coating, bond coating with 180-220 mu m thickness can improve NiCrBSi-Mo powder deposition rate while the surface coating with lower porosity, higher bonding strength and high hardness is prepared; the increase of bond coating thickness can lead to increase of functional coating porosity in the bottom and speed up the process of porosity attenuating in the vertical direction. SEM analysis found that the increase of bond coating thickness results in the droplet deposition morphology change in the bending interface with the functional coating. The defects of bond coating have genetic influence on composite functional coating. Bond tensile test results show that excessive bond coating thickness will cause fracture in the interface between bond coating and functional coating during the stretching process; in different grinding surfaces, Vickers hardness of test blocks with a certain bood coating thickness attenuates slowly in the vertical direction. NiCrBSi-Mo/Ni coating not only maintains high surface hardness, but also increases the coating thickness to repair surface damage.