Abstract-The use of protective coatings on components of machines and mechanisms provides the greatest economic benefit at the lowest additional cost. Plasma spraying is one of the most productive, technologically advanced, and efficient methods of producing these coatings. The results of investigations of structures, mechanical properties, and fracture surfaces of ceramic wear resistant coatings produced by plasma spraying have been presented.
DOI: 10.3103/S1052618817020078Intensive economic development and its efficiency increase are largely determined by the use of new technological processes. Advanced technologies based on major basic studies (laser, plasma, and powder metallurgy, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis, etc.) make a significant contribution to the development of special engineering.It is impossible to produce machinery and equipment for operation under extreme conditions (large dynamic loads, aggressive media, erosive and abrasive wear, etc.) is impossible without using special coatings. Special coatings are used to save high-alloy materials and to harden surfaces in order to give them special properties, such as protection from exposure to high temperatures, thermal erosion wear, neutron fluxes and radio emissions, abrasive wear, and the restoration of the geometric dimensions of the surface of worn-out details [12].The protective coating material is determined based on the conditions of its use. In the case of oxidecontaining materials (ZrO 2 -Y 2 O 3 and Al 2 O 3 -TiO 2 ), one of the main limiting factors of their use is low plasticity, as a result of which they fracture (due to cracking, delamination, or loss of material) [3].Coating strength is an important characteristic that determines the performance of products. Low strength can be caused by the physical nature of the coating structure consisting of separate relatively weakly bound particles and layers, porosities, and lack of volume coupling during the formation. Cohesive and adhesive strengths of welding regions is low as a consequence of defects in their structure. In addition, low adhesive strength is often caused by the difference in types of connections between the base material and the coating.In view of the above-mentioned, a need arises for standard special tests for the evaluation of the mechanical properties of ceramic coatings. One such method would be to use acoustic emission together with bending tests to investigate the phenomenon of the emergence of sound waves during the deformation of solids. Acoustic emissions are associated with the radiation of stress waves generated in the solid during deformation as result of discrete dynamic processes, such as the occurrence of macro-and microcracks during operation, which, as is known, are accompanied by the release of energy [4,5]. This method makes it possible to investigate the mechanisms of the fracture of materials, namely, the high sensitivity of the acoustic emission method makes it possible to determine the defectology type, which includes the size and number of...