Journal article

Transversely isotropic elastic-plastic properties in thermal arc sprayed Al–Zn coating: a microporomechanics approach

Wai Yeong Huen, Hyuk Lee, Vanissorn Vimonsatit, Priyan Mendis, Han-Seung Lee

Scientific Reports | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | Published : 2020

Abstract

The transversely isotropic behaviour of thermal sprayed aluminium and zinc coating has been investigated based on a combination of nanoindentation experimental data and microporomechanics theory. A recently developed strength homogenisation approach comprises of the solid and porous medium is adopted to investigate the morphology properties of thermal sprayed aluminum and zinc coating. The finding of this paper demonstrates that the individual aluminum and zinc phases in the coating have a characteristic packing density close to the theoretical highest spherical packing ratio for face-centred cubic and hexagonal close packed. Also, the plasticity properties of solid particles in both aluminu..

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Awarded by Australian Research Council


Awarded by National Research Foundation of Korea


Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship for this work as part of the postgraduate Ph.D. research. The coating samples used in the nanoindentation experiment were provided and funded by Hanyang University's basic science research program under the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (No. 2015R1A5A1037548). This work is part of on-going research currently funded by the Australia Research Council (ARC-DP180100643). The computational simulation and artificial neural network effort are made possible thanks to the resources provided by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre with funding from the Australian Government and the Government of Western Australia.