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The production of multilayer allows the insertion of several interfaces over a substrate. The technological applications of the multilayer coatings involve optical, electromagnetism and wear areas. This paper aims the development of techniques for production of multilayer coatings with titanium nitride (TiN) and zirconium nitride (ZrN) obtained by Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) from the use of an electron beam furnace. Moreover, the work includes the production of substrates (samples of Ti-35Nb-7Zr-5Ta) obtained by powder metallurgy from elemental hydrides and targets of Ti and Zr. The substrates were produced by mixing the elemental powders with subsequent steps of cold pressing and sintering at 1400°C in vacuum. The coatings were characterized by optical microscope, scanning electron microscope (SEM), chemical analysis via energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) and Vickers indentation.

Titanium alloys have been widely used in manufacturing of fans, compressor disks, and blades of advanced aircraft engines. However, titanium alloys are very sensitive to fretting fatigue damage, which may affect the safe reliability of the aircraft engine compressor. The multilayer coatings seem to be the most promising coating concept due to many requirements (e.g. multifunctional character, moderate residual stresses, good adherence to metallic substrates, proper hardness to toughness ratio and low friction coefficients) for titanium alloys exposed to complex wear conditions. This work aims the development of techniques for production of Ti/TiN multilayer coatings by Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition (EB-PVD) in order to define the influence of the number and thickness of the layers in the surface hardness of Ti-13Nb-13Zr alloy produced by powder metallurgy (P/M) from elemental hydrides.