Processing and microstructural development of wear protection coatings based in the Fe-Cr-C system

该项目将首次以科学的方式寻找Chrome碳化物覆盖层的冶金学。该主题与加拿大经济密切相关，因为Chrome碳化物覆层在自然资源开发中无处不在。对质量和性能的日益增长的需求导致了一些产品被接受的问题，并且没有足够的基础知识来做出关于过程改进的有效决策。Chrome碳化物覆盖层的物理复杂性已经超出了工业可以独立解决的范围，并且技术已经基于从白色铸铁借用的化学方法来进行，其具有类似的化学性质，但具有非常不同的处理问题。该提案的结果将使加拿大制造商能够了解影响质量和性能的覆盖层的特殊问题，并了解可以控制的内容以及如何在经济限制范围内获得世界一流的产品。

This project will look for the first time in a scientific way the metallurgy of chrome carbide overlays. The topic is of much relevance to the Canadian economy because chrome carbide overlays are ubiquitous in the exploitation of natural resources. Increasing demands for quality and performance have resulted in problems in getting some product accepted, and without enough understanding of the fundamentals to make effective decisions about process improvement. The physical complexity of chrome carbide overlays has been beyond what industry could tackle independently, and technical have been made based on borrowed heuristics from white cast iron, which shares somewhat similar chemistry, but very different processing issues. The results of this proposal will enable Canadian manufacturers to understand the particular issues of overlays that affect quality and performance, and to know what can be controlled and how to obtain a world class product within economic constraints.