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Bogdan Kupiec1, Zenon Opiekun1, Andrzej Dec1
1Department of Casting and Welding, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Rzeszow University of Technology, Al. Powstańców Warszawy 12, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland.
Abstract:
This paper presents the results of structural tests and hardness measurements of rebuilding coatings manually applied by the gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) method on damaged surfaces of steel shafts of turbochargers of automotive engines. Single- and double-layer coatings were applied in an argon atmosphere by fusing a 1.2 mm diameter wire with a Fluxofil M58 flux core, using a current of 35A and an arc voltage of 8-9 V. The hardfacing resulted in coatings with a martensitic-bainitic structure with fine dispersed carbides rich in M23C6-type chromium. The hardness of the coatings on the rebuilt shafts averaged from about 740HV5 for the single-layer coating to about 770HV5 for the double-layer coating and was two times higher than the hardness of the tempered shafts without coatings.
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