Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate

Elkoussy, AYoussef, AFPityana, Sisa LTaha, MA2020-02-272020-02-272019Elkoussy, A., Youssef, A.F., Pityana, S. and Taha, M.A. 2019. Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate. Research and Development in Machine Design, v2(3), 8pp.http://hbrppublication.com/OJS/index.php/RDMD/article/view/923http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11302Copyright: 2019 The authors. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Coating steel surfaces with hard ceramic particles in Aluminum has a great influence to improve mechanical properties and wear resistance. This research investigated direct laser deposition, where no binder is used, of pure Aluminum and its composite powder with SiCp of 30% and Mo2C 30% are conducted, applying laser cladding technique (LC) using coaxial cladding nozzle. The effects of SiCp and Mo2C content in composite and the laser processing parameters namely; laser power of 900 to 1200-watt, scan speed of 0.9 to 1.1 m.min-1 on clad layer formation and its geometry are studied. Results indicate that the clad geometry parameters get better quality clad layer with the increase of laser energy density to get full clad layer at energy density 25.6 J.mm-2. Some parameters such as width , penetration , aspect ratio and dilution percentage are directly proportional to laser energy density. While height on the other side is inversely proportional to laser energy density due to maintaining feeding rate constant. A slight increase in clad geometry parameters was observed in Al-SiC cladding layer over Al-Mo2C.enLaser claddingSilicon carbideMolybdenum carbideExperimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrateArticleElkoussy, A., Youssef, A., Pityana, S. L., & Taha, M. (2019). Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11302Elkoussy, A, AF Youssef, Sisa L Pityana, and MA Taha "Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate." (2019) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11302Elkoussy A, Youssef A, Pityana SL, Taha M. Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate. 2019; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11302.TY - Article AU - Elkoussy, A AU - Youssef, AF AU - Pityana, Sisa L AU - Taha, MA AB - Coating steel surfaces with hard ceramic particles in Aluminum has a great influence to improve mechanical properties and wear resistance. This research investigated direct laser deposition, where no binder is used, of pure Aluminum and its composite powder with SiCp of 30% and Mo2C 30% are conducted, applying laser cladding technique (LC) using coaxial cladding nozzle. The effects of SiCp and Mo2C content in composite and the laser processing parameters namely; laser power of 900 to 1200-watt, scan speed of 0.9 to 1.1 m.min-1 on clad layer formation and its geometry are studied. Results indicate that the clad geometry parameters get better quality clad layer with the increase of laser energy density to get full clad layer at energy density 25.6 J.mm-2. Some parameters such as width , penetration , aspect ratio and dilution percentage are directly proportional to laser energy density. While height on the other side is inversely proportional to laser energy density due to maintaining feeding rate constant. A slight increase in clad geometry parameters was observed in Al-SiC cladding layer over Al-Mo2C. DA - 2019 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Laser cladding KW - Silicon carbide KW - Molybdenum carbide LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2019 T1 - Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate TI - Experimental investigation on the influence of laser power and scan speed on track geometry in direct laser cladding of al – carbides powder composites on steel substrate UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11302 ER -