Prediction of residual stresses in thermally sprayed steel coatings considering the phase transformation effect

The present study is aimed to propose an elastoplastic bilayer model for prediction of residual stresses in thermally sprayed coatings, in which the effect caused by martensite phase transformation for steel coating materials was taken into account. Closed-form solutions of the curvature and stresses within the substrate and coating are obtained for the plastically deformed structures. Applications of the model for prediction of the twin-wire electric arc sprayed high carbon steel coatings were investigated subsequently. In the application case that a thin coating layer deposited with varying temperatures, the martensite phase transformation has a significant effect on the residual stress, e.g. a lower deposition temperature leads to more amount of martensite transformation and then to a lower level of final stress. The model was also used to predict the stress distribution of high carbon steel coating after quenching heat treatment, and the calculation results were compared with the X-ray residual stress measurements. It is found that the residual stresses on the coating surface obtained from the analytical model are closed to that obtained from the experiments.