Abstract
Residual stress and adhesive/cohesive strength in cold-sprayed coatings are extremely important factors, and the balance between them can be a determining factor in coating failure, such as by delamination or cracking. Dominated residual stress to bonding stress should lead to coating peel off from its substrate. Up to now, it is still difficult to measure the residual stress of cold-sprayed coating especially inside it. In the present study, a high-energy X-rayed beam was utilized to penetrate the cold-sprayed coatings and the change of its diffraction angle can be detected. This gave a way to measure the residual strain inside the cold-sprayed coatings. With the scanning of the X-rayed beam and the detector at different locations, the strain of cold-sprayed coating at 2 directions can be obtained. Moreover, the residual stress of cold-sprayed coating can be calculated with the measured strain.
