Gold dispersed-titanium carbide films have been prepared by the activated reactive evaporation technique developed by Bunshah and Raghuram. The structure of the film was examined by means of a scanning electron microscope, a X-ray diffractometer, and an electron probe micro-analyzer. On the other hand, the hardness and wear rate of the specimens were measured as a function of the gold content of the evaporant with a micro-vickers hardness tester and an Ohgoshi-type wear testing machine, respectively.
It was confirmed that the hardness measured vertically to the surface of the film was larger than that measured vertically to the cross section of the film. This is probably due to the coarse columnar structure of the film. The wear rate of TiC-Au coated onto SUS 304 was found to be of the order of 10
-8 mm
2/kg, which is about one hundredth of the wear rate of a non-coated one.
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