Welded deposited overlays have been widely used in various areas of the mining industry reltaed to wear. The welding processes as Metal Inert/Active Gas (MIG/MAG) or Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Gas Metal Arc Welding with Cold Wire (GMAW-CW) and Submerged Arc Welding (SAW) have been studied focusing on the application of wear resistant overlay's. The use of processes with high productivity and exibility that
allow changes in chemical composition as SAW is viable, and promising in the case of GMAW-CW. The present study investigated the microstructure and mechanical properties of wear resistant overlays obtained by the SAW and GMAW-CW processes on primary chromium carbides overlay's (CCO's) and ferritic second phase overlays (Fe-SF). Conventional techniques of structural characterization as optical microscopy and optical emisson spectroscopy (OES) and advanced as X ray di raction (XRD) and electron backscatter di raction (EBSD), identied the main phase and defect formation mechanisms in these overlays. Characterization techniques of mechanical property such as microhardness and unconventional as the compact impact abrasion test (CIAT), were also presented as important
tools, in the study of welded deposited wear resistant overlays. The Fe-SF and CCO showed an increase in mass loss over time CIAT testing. The CCO had the lowest mass loss rate, 48.1 % less than the Fe-SF higher cold wire rate (rAF) and 61.4 % less than the Fe-SF lower rAF. The mass loss rate raised as rAF increased. The mass loss rate for Fe-SF lower rAF is 34.6 % higher than the largest rAF Fe-SF. The mass loss rate compared to rAF, behaved in an inverse manner with respect to hardness, i.e. the higher the hardness the lower mass loss rate.
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