Abstract. Creating a functionally oriented, including nanostructured, anti-friction materials and coatings with qualitatively new complex of service properties is an important scientific and practical problem. In particular, for the cable industry it is urgent task of ensuring the high performance properties of fast deteriorating stretching and supporting rollers. Working surfaces of these parts operate under practically dry friction conditions with constantly updated material of stretching wire. Plasma spraying is one of the widely used methods of surface engineering to create wear resistant coatings and which is characterized with process flexibility and the ability to create coatings using various materials and alloys including composite ones. The installation UPU-3D with the PP-25 plasma torch was used for plasma spraying. The thickness of the sprayed layer was 0.8-1.1 mm. As a material for the deposition of composite coatings a powder mixture of self-fluxing nickel alloy PG-HN80SR4 (system Ni-Fe-Cr-Si-B-C) and a neutral oxide ceramics Al 2 O 3 was used. The amount of ceramics varied from 15 to 33 %. This ceramic oxide was selected due to the desire to reduce coatings' costs while providing high durability. Carried out phase and microstructural studies have shown when ceramics was added in an amount more than 20 % a formation of conglomerates formed by not melted alumina particles often was observed. These conglomerates serve as crack formation centers in the coating. The phase composition of the coatings practically does not depend on the content of ceramics compounds. Tribological tests have shown that the best results were obtained when the content of the oxide ceramic in the coating was in the range from 15 to 20 %. Реферат. Создание функционально ориентированных, в том числе наноструктурированных, антифрикционных мате-риалов и покрытий, обладающих качественно новым комплексом служебных свойств, является важной научной и практической задачей. В частности, для кабельного производства актуальна задача обеспечения высоких эксплуа-тационных свойств быстроизнашивающихся протягивающих и поддерживающих роликов кабельного производства. Рабочие поверхности этих деталей работают в условиях практически сухого трения при постоянно обновляющемся материале протягиваемой проволоки. Один из широко применяемых методов инженерии поверхности для создания износостойких покрытий -плазменное напыление, которое характеризуется гибкостью процесса и возможностью создавать покрытия из различных материалов и сплавов, включая композиционные покрытия. Для плазменного напыления использовали установку УПУ-3Д с плазмотроном ПП-25. Толщина напыленного слоя составила 0,8-1,1 мм. В качестве материала для создания композиционных покрытий применяли смесь порошков самофлюсующегося нике- и Машиностроение левого сплава ПГ-ХН80СР4 (системы Ni-Fe-Cr-Si-B-C) и нейтральной оксидной керамики Al 2 O 3 . Количество вво-димой керамики изменялось от 15 до 33 %. Выбор данной оксидной керамики обусловлен стремлением снизить сто-имость покрытия при обеспе...

Plasma spraying is one of the most effective methods allowing both to restore worn surfaces of parts and create wearresistant coatings on new parts aiming the increase of their service life. Properties of the produced coatings depend on number of parameters, such as a plasma temperature, a chemical and fractional composition of the sprayed mixture, a distance from a plasma torch to the surface of a part, etc. Mathematical modeling of the process can significantly reduce the cost of processing of technological modes and is widely used at present for a calculation of technological parameters. The paper is devoted to mathematical simulation aiming to determine an effect of the injected ceramics content on the change in a temperature of a particles flow, as well as finding the modes in which the particles of high-temperature ceramics will be in the liquid state when they are deposited on the surface of a product. A mathematical model of particles heating in plasma has been formulated and a system of equations has been compiled. The system of equations has been solved numerically in Mathcad by a standard procedure using the Rkadapt function. Calculations have been carried out for a volume concentration of Al2O3 ceramics in a mixture from 5 to 50 % and for a plasma temperature at the exit from the plasma torch in the range from 6000 to 10000 K. Calculations have shown that the concentration of ceramics does not significantly affect the temperature of a mixture. The temperature of the particles depends to a large extent on the temperature of the plasma and the diameter of particles. It has been determined that for the entire range of calculated values the temperature of the self-fluxing powder in contact with the substrate exceeds a melting point. Fractional particle size has a strong effect on the temperature of particles at the moment of contact with the substrate. The dependences of a temperature of the ceramic phase on the particle size at different concentrations and plasma temperature have been determined. Analysis of the coatings microstructures has shown a good correlation with the results of the calculation.