An additive manufacturing system includes an additive manufacturing tool configured to receive a plurality of metallic anchoring materials and to supply a plurality of droplets to a part, and a controller configured to independently control the composition, formation, and application of each droplet to the plurality of droplets to the part. The plurality of droplets is configured to build up the part. Each droplet of the plurality of droplets includes at least one metallic anchoring material of the plurality of metallic anchoring materials.

A system (100), apparatus (110), and method (900) for creating a particle stream (70) that is deflected with a secondary gas (518) such as air before coming into contact with the treated substrate surface (80). The system (100) can be implemented as an improvement to a prior art PTWA (plasma transferred wire arc) thermal spraying apparatus (50) by using a non-symmetrical passageway configuration (549). Such a configuration can be an attribute of a nozzle (220) or a secondary gas director (576) such as an air baffle (578).

A small-size axial powder feeding inner hole plasma spraying gun comprises a nozzle with one end fixed on one side of a front gun body through a nozzle gland and the other end extending to the other side of the front gun body; an insulator arranged between the front gun body and a rear gun body; a powder feeding frame fixedly connected to the rear gun body internally provided with a powder inlet channel, a cathode seat of a cathode being connected to the powder feeding joint, a cathode head extending into a spray hole channel of the nozzle, and an annular cavity being formed between the cathode head and an inner wall of the spray hole channel; an air inlet channel arranged on the front gun body and communicated with the annular cavity; and a cooling channel with an interior introduced with cooling water.

A plasma spraying method for coating a cylinder barrel of a cylinder crankcase of a reciprocating internal combustion engine. A coating method is provided, with the aid of which the formation of oxides is limited or oxide banding in the layer formation and thus negative influences are avoided due to oxidation outbreaks and microgroove formation are avoided. The coating is applied to the cylinder barrel of the cylinder crankcase at least partially using the following parameter combination: rotational speed: 600 to 800 revolutions/minute; sprayed material delivery rate: 80 to 180 grams/minute; and feed rate: 24 to 75 mm/s.

The invention relates to a coating method for coating a curved surface (1), in particular a concave inner surface (1) of a bore wall or a cylinder wall (2), by means of a powdery coating material (3) by using a thermal spraying device, in particular a plasma spraying device (4) or a HVOF spraying device. A gun (6) is provided on a gun shaft (5) of the thermal spraying device (4) for generating a coating jet (7) from the powdery coating material (3) by means of an arc and the gun (6) is rotated about a shaft axis (A) of the gun shaft (5) at a predetermined rotation frequency (N), wherein the coating jet (7) for applying a coating (8) to the curved surface (1) is directed at least partially radially away from the shaft axis (A) towards the curved surface (1). According to the invention, a higher rotation frequency (N) of the gun (6) is selected with respect to a base rotation frequency (N0) of the gun (6) and the conveying rate (F) of the powdery coating material (3) is changed according to a predetermined scheme in such a way that the conveying rate (F) is adapted to the higher rotation frequency (N) of the gun (6). The invention further relates to a thermal coating (8) and to a coated cylinder.

A method of manufacturing a crucible assembly having a shell and a liner is disclosed. The method includes forming the shell using a casting process. The shell includes silica and has an inner surface and an outer surface. The method also includes forming the liner on the inner surface of the shell. The liner is formed of synthetic silica.

An embodiment includes a coating apparatus comprising: a support unit for supporting a coating object; and a spray assembly for spraying a fluid which includes a coating material to be coated by the coating object supported on the support unit. The spray assembly comprises: a nozzle unit where the fluid is sprayed; and a fluid supply unit for supplying the fluid to the nozzle unit. The nozzle unit comprises: a body including a passageway for the fluid therein and a dielectric unit provided with a dielectric material; and a plasma source for generating plasma from the fluid which flows to an area adjacent to inner lateral surface of the dielectric unit. The plasma source comprises: a power electrode applying a power; and a ground electrode to be grounded.

A coating apparatus is provided that includes: a mixer configured to generate mixed ceramic powder in which a material which contains an organic compound imparting lubricity to raw ceramic powder whose average particle size is smaller than or equal to 10 m and acts as an additive is mixed into the raw ceramic powder; a jetting device configured to jet the mixed ceramic powder toward a surface of a base material; and a heating device configured to heat the mixed ceramic powder jetted from the jetting device, and to evaporate the organic compound of the additive contained in the mixed ceramic powder.

Present embodiments include a system that includes a welding tool configured to receive a welding wire from a wire feeder, to receive welding power from a power source, and to supply the welding wire to a workpiece during a welding process. The system also includes a mechanical oscillation system configured to mechanically oscillate a structural component toward and away from the workpiece. The structural component is external to the wire feeder and the power source. The system further comprises control circuitry configured to control the welding power based on feedback relating to the welding process.

An example system includes at least one acoustic sensor configured to generate at least one acoustic data signal indicative of an acoustic signal generated by a thermal spray system comprising a flowstream, a computing device, and an acoustic data signal processing module operable by the computing device to determine an ignition attribute of the thermal spray system by analyzing at least a pre-ignition window of the acoustic data signal received by the computing device.