Comparison of Laser Cladding And Thermal Spraying Techniques Used For Wear Control

Wear determines the service life of the components/equipment during the different applications. Wear is the progressive damage, involving material loss, which occurs on the surface of a component as result of its motion relative to the adjacent working parts. Because of wear there are the economic and money related misfortunes because of drop in proficiency, constrained shutdowns and repair are massive. Occurrence of wear depends upon many methods like geometry of the surface, applied load, the rolling and sliding velocities environmental conditions, mechanical, thermal, chemical and metallurgical properties and physical, thermal and chemical properties of the lubricant. So it is necessary to control the wear of the components. There are different methods/ techniques are available to control the wear. In this study, compare the laser cladding and thermal spraying process, their principle, process parameters to control the wear of components that are used in diverse applications.