This study was carried out to investigate the properties of DLC coating layer according to the inter-layer when the hybrid coating is applied to dies for VCM sheet forming. It is the hybrid coating that the inter-layer and DLC are successively coated ...
This study was carried out to investigate the properties of DLC coating layer according to the inter-layer when the hybrid coating is applied to dies for VCM sheet forming. It is the hybrid coating that the inter-layer and DLC are successively coated on surface of the base material. And various conditions of the inter-layer affect the DLC coating layer. So Vickers hardness test, scratch test, friction test and roughness measurement are performed in order to check the effect of the inter-layer such as VC, TiAlN, Cr and CrN and whether or not doping of N2 gas is applied. Also, it is analyzed that the correlation between the bonding force and other parameters such as the hardness, roughness and doping of N₂. As a result, it is found that properties of DLC coating layer are better than something else, when the inter-layer is CrN without doping of N₂ gas.