@ARTICLE{Ștefan_A._Cold_2024,
 author={Ștefan, A. and Chicet, D.-L. and Istrate, B. and Munteanu, C.},
 volume={vol. 69},
 number={No 4},
 pages={1509-1518},
 journal={Archives of Metallurgy and Materials},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2024},
 publisher={Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science of Polish Academy of Sciences},
 publisher={Committee of Materials Engineering and Metallurgy of Polish Academy of Sciences},
 abstract={In the Cold Spraying technology, the coatings are produced as a result of the supersonic acceleration of the particles in a gas jet, at temperatures below the melting/phase transformation point of the sprayed material. In this paper, the morphology of a Ni/CrC cold spray coating is studied, based on the identification of the particle’s characteristic at various magnifications, both on cross-section and on the surface of the samples. The layer appearance is continuous, uniform and sinuous, no adhesion defects were observed at the substrate-coating interface, and the plastic deformation of the steel was highlighted. The elemental chemical analysis on the sample cross-section, together with the distribution map shows that the carbide particles have retained their sphericity to a large extent, being uniformly embedded in the Ni matrix, as a result of the plastic deformation. This allows a higher thickness of the cold spray coatings comparatively to the ones obtained with the other thermal spray methods that imply high temperatures of the gas jet and layered microstructures.},
 title={Cold Spray Coatings Morphology},
 type={Article},
 URL={http://journals.pan.pl/Content/133550/AMM-2024-4-31-Chicet.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/amm.2024.151421},
 keywords={Cold spray coatings, microstructure, morphology},
}