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JUNE 28 WEDNESDAY MORNING<br />

JS2-WeM-OR.2 WEAR RESISTANCE OF TITANIUM-ALUMI-NIUM-CHRO-<br />

MIUM-NITRIDE NANOCOMPOSITE THIN FILMS. A. Alberdi, M. Marín, B. Díaz.<br />

Fundación Tekniker. Avda. Otaola, 20. 20600 Eibar (Spain). O. Sánchez. Institute of Materials<br />

Science (ICMM). Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid (Spain)<br />

Titanium nitride, titanium-aluminium nitride and chromium nitride are now used widely in<br />

manufacturing industry to protect cutting and forming tools against wear. TiN was the first<br />

PVD ceramic coating to be used successfully to machine steel in industry and it is still the most<br />

recognized. TiN is a wear resistant coating suitable for a wide range of applications. It is used<br />

for machining carbon stainless steels, cast irons and aluminium alloys, protecting dies, moulds<br />

and a range of metal stamping and forming tools. However, TiN has now been superseded in<br />

many applications by TiAlN, which offers superior performance for a range of metal machining<br />

and fabrication applications. It has been pointed out that the reason for this better performance<br />

is the formation of aluminium oxide on the surface, which increases its operational temperature<br />

range. Although CrN is softer than TiN, CrN is a tough ceramic coating with good<br />

oxidation resistance. Presently, CrN is the PVD hard coating recommended for most metal<br />

forming applications.<br />

Advanced PVD coatings based on TiAlN are being developed recently, which possess enhanced<br />

high temperature oxidation and wear resistance. Typical strategy to enlarge the temperature<br />

range of TiAlN is the addition of metals able to generate high resistant oxides, like<br />

chromium, molybdenum, yttrium or vanadium.<br />

In this way, authors have developed novel TiAlCrN multilayered nanocomposite thin films,<br />

which alternate CrN and TiAlN individual 10-12 nm thickness layers up to a total thickness of<br />

1-3 μm. These coatings were grown on WC-Co inserts and high speed steel samples by simultaneous<br />

arc evaporation of pure Cr and Ti-Al alloy targets. Wear resistance of these coatings<br />

was studied through high temperature pin-on-disk experiments. Results demonstrated that this<br />

kind of coating structures improved several times the wear resistance at high temperature of<br />

commercially available TiAlN coatings.<br />

Key words: TiAlCrN ceramic coatings, physical vapour deposition, high temperature wear resistance.<br />

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