Heat Treatment of Metals ›› 2024, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (8): 261-267.DOI: 10.13251/j.issn.0254-6051.2024.08.044

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Electrochemical corrosion behavior of FeCoCrNiMoBSi high-entropy alloy coating prepared by laser cladding

Du Xinyu1, Zhai Changsheng1,2, Rong Haisong1, Xie Fang1, Zheng Hongxing3, Zhang Xi1, Zhang Xin1, Liu Gang1   

  1. 1. Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, Nanyang Institute of Technology, Nanyang Henan 473004, China;
    2. Yanbai Intelligent Additive Manufacturing (Xuzhou) Technology Co., Ltd., Xuzhou Jiangsu 221116, China;
    3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received:2024-03-08 Revised:2024-06-26 Online:2024-08-25 Published:2024-09-27

Abstract: FeCoCrNiMoBSi high-entropy alloy (HEA) coating was fabricated on the 316L stainless steel substrate via laser cladding. The microstructure, electrochemical corrosion and immersion corrosion properties of the HEA coating in H2SO4 solution were investigated. The results show that the laser clad HEA coating exhibits a bilayer structure, consisting of a columnar crystal at the bottom and an equiaxed crystal at the top. In the 0.3 mol/L H2SO4 solution, the self-corrosion potential, self-corrosion current density and polarization resistance of the HEA coating are 0.091 V, 11.499 μA/cm2 and 9839.90 Ω, which are 2.12 times, 6.17% and 12.2 times, respectively, of the 316L stainless steel substrate. The HEA coating exhibits larger capacitance arc radius and impedance modulus value. Additionally, in the 50% H2SO4 solution, the corrosion rate of the HEA coating is lower, approximately 0.098 mg/(dm2·d), 316L stainless steel substrate shows conspicuous heterogeneous corrosion, whereas the corrosion surface of the HEA coating remains uniformly flat, showing homogeneous corrosion rate. The comprehensive results show that the corrosion resistance of the FeCoCrNiMoBSi high-entropy alloy coating on the 316L stainless steel substrate is significantly better than that of the substrate itself.

Key words: high-entropy alloy coating, laser cladding, electrochemical corrosion

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