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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 However, TiN has now been superseded in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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