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A Comparative Study of Quantitative Image Analyze and X-Ray Diffraction Methods for Carbide Amount in composite coatings on steel

Koray Kılıçay1, Esad Kaya2*, İsmail  Bayar 3, Mustafa Ulutan4
1Mechanical Engineering Department, ESOGU , Eskişehir, Turkey
2Mechanical Engineering Department, ESOGU , Eskişehir, Turkey
3Mechanical Engineering Department, ESOGU, Eskişehir, Turkey
4Mechanical Engineering Department, ESOGU  , Eskişehir, Turkey
* Corresponding author: esatkaya@ogu.edu.tr

Presented at the Ist International Symposium on Innovative Approaches in Scientific Studies (ISAS 2018), Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, Apr 11, 2018

SETSCI Conference Proceedings, 2018, 2, Page (s): 65-65

Published Date: 23 June 2018

Carbides change highly effective on the mechanical and tribological properties of the coatings. For this reason, it is very important to determine the carbide ratio in the microstructure correctly. Researchers mostly try to determine phase ratios by optical image in visually. In this study, the amount of carbides in coatings was measured by two different methods. In first method, the coatings are etched and optical microstructure photographs are taken. Microstructure photographs were examined with an image analyzer software. The percentage of the carbide phase fields in the microstructure is calculated as a percentage. The second method used is the X-ray diffraction technique, which gives more precise results but is an expensive method. XRD tests performed on the coating zone were analyzed and the carbide phase ratios were calculated from the pattern peaks. The results showed that phase ratio calculation with image analyzer as effective as XRD method  

Keywords - Micro Structure, Phase Ratio

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