Abstract
Both bonding strength of coating to substrate in low pressure plasma spraying and the effect of reverse transferred arc treating before spraying are studied in this paper. It is difficult to obtain the bonding strength precisely in low pressure plasma spraying by standard testing methods, such as, ASTM Standard C633-79 and JIS H8666-80. Therefore, for the bonding strength test rather than using a conventional adhesive, we believe a vacuum brazing process using Ag-Cu-In-Ti active filler metal at 1023 K should be used. We have also confirmed the practicality of this step. By the above test method, it has been proven that the bonding strength of low pressure plasma sprayed coating is over 100 MPa. Also, that reverse transferred arc treating after blasting enhances the bonding strength of low pressure plasma sprayed coating. It is also believed that the projections formed on the substrate surface by reverse transferred arc treating are buried into the coating and perform the pile effect.
