Microstructure and wear properties of laser cladding Ti–Al–Fe–B coatings on AA2024 aluminum alloy

Aluminum alloy pistons reinforced with SiC fabricated by centrifugal casting

“…In recent years, these combined pistons, such as the so-called "crown with steel, skirt with Al alloy" pistons, in which the crowns are composed of steel and the skirts are composed of Al alloys, have shown a wide range of applications in the engines of heavy-duty trucks and commercial vehicles. Other researchers including Wang and Tung (1999), Wang et al (2005), Taymaz et al (2005) and Xu et al (2006) claimed that the corrosion and wear resistance of the pistons, in which the surface was coated with certain ceramic materials, could be improved to some extent. Furthermore, other new fabrication routes of pistons have been developed.…”

Tribological behavior of TiB2–TiC–Al2O3 composite coating synthesized by combined SHS and laser technology

“…Further, by proper control of laser parameters, a strong metallurgical bond can be obtained between coating and substrate [12]. Extensive work has been carried out in the field of surface engineering till date with CO 2 [13][14][15][16][17][32][33][34] and Nd:YAG lasers [12,18,19,[35][36][37]. A variety of procedures have been developed for the application of laser energy to obtain hard coatings on metallic surfaces.…”

Effect of Y2O3 addition on microstructure of Ni-based alloy+Y2O3/substrate laser clad

“…E-mail address: xupeiquan7810@yahoo.com.cn (P. Xu). al., 2006;Duraiselvam et al, 2005;Shangping Li et al, 2007;Xu et al, 2006aXu et al, , 2006b. Clad material included ceramic phases, strengthening wearing phases or special crystalline materials, e.g., Al 2 O 3 , NiTi, in-situ synthesis TiC coating (Liu et al, 2006;Yue et al, 2006), WC/Ni coating (Ibrahim et al, 1991;Lloyd, 1994), quasicrystal and amorphous mixtures (Lavernia et al, 1995;Taya and Lucay, 1991;Lebrat et al, 1992;Munir and Umberto, 1989;Lalas et al, 2007;Salehi and Brandt, 2006), in which the hardening phases itself has a coarse scale structure.…”