EM of mechanical plated Ti and tin coating on steel
Mechanical alloying, originally developed as a means to produce oxide dispersion strengthened alloys, has since been adopted for producing a wide variety of materials such as solid solution alloys, metal matrix composites, intermetallics, nanocrystalline and amorphous materials. It has also demonstrated as an efficient method for alloying gaseous elements by solid-gas reaction. Interest in using metal and metalloid nitrides as coating materials has been increased considerably in the past few years because of their special properties including extreme hardness, high temperature stability, high corrosion and wear resistance, and excellent conductivity. A new coating technique through the marriage of mechanical plating and nitriding has recently been developed in this laboratory. This paper presents an electron microscopic study of mechanically plated Ti and TiN coating.Commercially produced (Johnson Matthey, Inc.) fine-grained (325 mesh, or 44 μm) Ti (99%) powders were used as the starting coating material. Interstitial-free steel sheet (provided by Inland Steel) were cut to a size of 1.5 cm × 1.5 cm as the substrate.