Study on fabrication technology and corrosion resistance of Fe-based amorphous alloy coatings by high-speed laser cladding

Abstract In this paper, the AME201 Fe-based amorphous alloy coating was prepared by ultra-high speed laser cladding on the surface of 27SiMn alloy steel. The effects of technological parameters on the surface morphology, micro-structure and dilution rate of coating. Corrosion resistance and weight loss of matrix, AME201Fe coating, 316L coating and Fe901 coating were studied by salt spray corrosion test. The results show that the thickness of AME201Fe coating is mostly affected by powder feeding, laser power and scanning speed have a huge impact on the width of coating, and the dilution rate increased from 0.13% to 29% with the change of laser power, nearly several hundreds of times. The results of salt spray test show that the AME201Fe coating has the minimum weight loss value at each stage compared with the matrix, 316L coating and Fe901 coating, which can play a good role in surface protection because of less internal defects and no grain boundary dislocations.