Research Article
Studies on Erosion Behavior of Plasma Sprayed Coatings of Glass Microspheres Premixed with Al2O3 Particles
Table 5
Variation of micro-hardness with torch input power.
| | Torch Input power (kW) | Coating Micro-hardness (GPa) | | BGM | BGM + 10% Al2O3 | BGM + 20% Al2O3 | BGM + 30% Al2O3 |
| | 8 | 9.92 | 9.55 | 9.41 | 9.27 | | 12 | 10.12 | 9.81 | 9.74 | 9.59 | | 16 | 11.23 | 10.98 | 10.89 | 10.65 | | 20 | 11.67 | 11.41 | 11.29 | 11.13 | | 24 | 11.42 | 11.12 | 11.02 | 10.89 |
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