Abstract
Application of cold spray process is expected in the various industrial fields such as automobile, aircraft and electronics. So many investigations for practical application have been actively performed in many research organizations. However, as the process has just started in these days, fundamental aspect like deposition mechanism itself has not been well understood up to today. To establish the higher reliability or controllability of the cold spray process, fundamental research, especially on the deposition mechanism, may become a key for the process development. We tried the clarification of particle deposition mechanism in cold spray process by experimental approach. In this study, deposition behavior of sprayed individual particle onto substrate surface was investigated precisely.
Self designed cold spray equipment was installed in the laboratory and deposition behavior of sprayed individual metallic particles on the substrate surface was fundamentally investigated. As a preliminary experiment, pure Cu particles were sprayed on mirror polished stainless steel substrate surface. Particles diameter, process gas, gas pressure, gas temperature and substrate temperature were systematically changed as the process parameters, and effect of these parameters on the flattening or deposition behavior of an individual particle was investigated.
