Tribological behavior of thermal spray coatings, deposited by HVOF and APS techniques, and composite electrodeposits Ni/SiC at both room temperature and 300 °C

because of their high wear resistance combined with good corrosion resistance. In particular the addition of both micro particles or nanoparticles to the electrodeposited coatings could lead to an increase of the mechanical properties, caused by the change of the coating microstructure. The thermal spray coatings were deposited following industrial standards procedures, while the Ni/SiC composite coatings were produced at laboratory scale using both micro- and nano-sized ceramic particles. All the produced coatings were characterized regarding their microstructure, mechanical properties and the wear resistance. The tribological properties were analyzed using a tribometer under ball on disk configuration at both room temperature and 300 °C. The results showed that the cermet thermal spray coatings have a high wear resistance, while the Ni nano-composite showed good anti wear properties compared to the harder ceramic/cermet coatings deposited by thermal spray technique.