Materials Science Forum, Vol.396-4, 1709-1714, 2002
Selecting of aluminium casting alloys for plasmochemical ceramic coatings
The selecting of aluminium casting alloys for producing the wear resistance structural materials with plasmochemical ceramic coating was considered. It was shown that ceramic coatings formed on commercial Al-Si alloys of 3xx series (>5%Si) have a low quality because of the substantial influence of silicon particles. So it was proposed to use the new casting aluminium alloys of eutectic type with an increased content on transition metals (Ni, Fe, Ce, Mn, Zr, Cr), where the second phases in the eutectics are: Al3Ni, Al4Ce, Al9FeNi, Al10CeFe2, Al8Fe2Si, Al-15(Fe,Mn)(2)Si-3 and others. The thickness and microhardness of coatings formed on the new alloys were found considerably higher comparing with commercial Al-Si alloys.