Abstract
The Goal of this research project is the development of a thermal spray technique for production of layers with high SiC content. Due to its physicochemical characteristics, silicon carbide (SiC) is a material which is particularly well suited as a component of wear-protection layers [1]. In thermal spray, however, silicon carbide can not be processed easily, since it disintegrates and sublimates into the gaseous phase at the prevailing high process temperatures under atmospheric conditions. In this project, SiC-phases of the spray layers are to be in-situ synthesized from silicon and carbon-containing substances during the spray process. Silicon containing solids are to be brought into reaction with carbon-containing solids, liquids and gases. For economic reasons, this technique is aimed at using low-priced basic materials to be processed by flame- and plasma spraying techniques with only slight modifications to existing atmospheric spraying equipment; thus the said SiC coatings might become an alternative to assigned hard material coatings. In this first step the technologic-mechanical potential and thus the feasibility and usability of a yet to develop coating system by different synthesis routes should be evaluated.
