Recently a Ti–TiAl 3 metal–intermetallic laminate (MIL) composite attracts growing attention because they have potential application in honeycomb or sandwich components of airplanes and as biomaterial with good bio-compatibility. Of the available processing techniques, diffusion bonding of elemental titanium and aluminum foils is an effective low-temperature method to synthesize the composite, allowing growth of the intermetallic layer. However, application of assembling and multi-pass cold rolling operations leads to fact that this technology is complex and expensive. The use of Cold Spray technology instead of aluminum foils utilization and multi-pass cold rolling to produce the Ti–TiAl 3 MIL composites is believed to be more effective. However, reaction diffusion kinetics of Ti-Al particulate composite differs from that of classical MIL composite and needs to be studied. The task of this paper is to define microstructural changes of Tl-TiAl 3 composite coating during cold spraying and reaction sintering. The optical microscopy, SEM, EDS, X-ray and microhardness examinations are presented and discussed.

The main goal of the combined Cold Spray – Sintering technology development is to obtain high density ductile Fe- Al intermetallics based thermal barrier coatings as an alternative to conventional ZrO 2 coatings widely applied in industry. The task of this paper is to examine the structural changes of cold sprayed Al-AISI 316L composite coatings due to synthesis of Fe-Al intermetallics during annealing and find the conditions of high density composite formation. A dense Fe/Al intermetallic-Al composite coating is obtained. Three factors are found to play the main role in the structure formation of dense Fe-Al intermetallic composite coating: i) layered structure, ii) particle size and thickness of Fe and Al layers, iii) annealing temperature.