Abstract
Cold spray is a relatively easy and economical approach to deposit composite coatings with comparable or even better properties than other processing methods. This article summarized the published papers on cold-sprayed metal matrix composite coatings. After a brief introduction of the remarkable advantage of cold spray in fabricating composite and the building-up process of the cold-sprayed composite coating, the versatility of cold spray to produce a great wide range of applicable materials was classified according to the matrix materials, i.e., aluminum, copper, nickel, tungsten carbide, titanium, hydroxyapatite, and polymer. Then, some key issues concerning the content loss and fragmentation of the hard particles were put forward, and post-spray treatment techniques and powder preparations were thus concluded.
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This work is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2682015RC01) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (51601157). The authors also gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions of the reviewers of Prof. HL Liao and Dr. CJ Huang from Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard for their help and useful discussions.
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Yu, M., Li, W. (2018). Metal Matrix Composite Coatings by Cold Spray. In: Cavaliere, P. (eds) Cold-Spray Coatings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67183-3_10
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