Particle In-Flight Velocity and Dispersion Measurements at Increasing Particle Feed Rates in Cold Spray

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• 作者：M. Meyer ; S. Yin ; R. Lupoi
• 关键词：cold spray ; particle feed rate ; particle image velocimetry ; particle velocity ; phase coupling
• 刊名：Journal of Thermal Spray Technology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：26
• 期：1-2
• 页码：60-70
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• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films; Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Operating Procedures, Materials Treatment; Analytical Chemistry;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1544-1016
• 卷排序：26

文摘

Cold spray (CS) is attracting interest of research and industry due to its rapid, solid-state particle deposition process and respective advantages over conventional deposition technologies. The acceleration of the particles is critical to the efficiency of CS, and previous investigations rarely consider the particle feed rate. However, because higher particle loadings are typically used in the process, the effect of this cannot be assumed negligible. This study therefore investigates the particle velocities in the supersonic jet of an advanced CS system at low- and high pressure levels and varying particle feed rates using particle image velocimetry. The particle dispersion and velocity evolution along the jet axis were investigated for several feedstock materials. It was found that the average particle velocity noticeably decreases with increasing particulate loading in all cases. The velocity distribution and particle dispersion were also observed to be influenced by the feed rate. Effects are driven by both mass loading and volume fraction, depending on the feedstock’s particle velocity parameter. Increased particle feed rates hence affect the magnitude and distribution of impact velocity and consequently the efficiency of CS. In particular, numerical models neglecting this interconnection are required to be further improved, based on these experimental studies.