In order to improve the wear resistance of the surface of thick copperplate, a coating of
alloy powder is produced on the surface of the thick copperplate with the method of laser remelting
plasma sprayed coating. The value simulation of temperature and the experimental results show that,
it is difficult to produce ferronickel coating with large area and crackfree on thick copperplate for
laser cladding technique. Using transsonic plasma heat spraying method to fix the alloy powder on the
surface of thick copperplate, a sprayed coating can be produced, which has certain adhesion strength
to the copperplate. In order to prevent crack produced in large area laser remelting coating, a method
with band-like and point-like remilting area at intervals of same distance has been taken. The surface
appearance and roughness of the coating produced by plasma spraying are compared with that of the
coating produced by plasma spraying and remelted by laser, micro organization analysis and wear
resistance comparison experiments are taken to the specimen. The microstructure photos show that
the coating of the plasma heat sprayed is mainly made up by grains, with a great deal of pores existing.
After laser remelting, microstructure of the coating is more compact, and the most of pores
disappeared, so the strength of the boundary between the remelted coating and the copperplate is build
up and the coating with large area and crackfree on thick copperplate is performed by the method of
laser remelting plasma spraying coating in large amount of point-like remilting areas
The experiment result shows that the wear resistance of laser remelting plasma heat sprayed coating
enhances 3 times more than That of the unremelt coating, and about 14 times compared with the
copperplate, and the wear resistance of the surface with point-like laser remelting area is between that
of plasma heat sprayed coating and that of the laser remelting coating, it depends on the ratio of the
remelted part to the whole in area, however, the wear resistance increases with the value of the ratio