The invention discloses a PVD
chromium base
ceramic composite coating piston ring and a preparation method thereof, and the
piston ring is manufactured by plating a
chromium base
ceramic composite coating on a
basal body of the
piston ring which is treated by
nitriding by adopting high power
electric arc discharge method; the
chromium base
ceramic composite coating is composed of a bonding layer, a main wearing layer and an anti-attrition layer, wherein, the bonding layer is binded with the
basal body of the
piston ring in a metallurgical way, the main wearing layer is arranged on the bonding layer, and the anti-attrition layer is positioned on the surface of the main wearing layer; the bonding layer is Cr, the main wearing layer is a Cr / CrN multilayer
coating formed by the Cr and the CrN which are alternately arranged, and the anti-attrition layer is a Cr / Cr2O3 multilayer
coating formed by the Cr and the Cr2O3 that are alternately arranged. The
coating structure has reasonable design, and the manufactured coating has good cementing property, high
hardness and good lubricating property. Furthermore, the method used for manufacturing the
piston ring has no
pollution in the preparation process, and overcomes the serious problem of environmental
pollution of the conventional electrodeposited chromium; as the manufactured coating has better abrasion resistant and
corrosion resistant performance compared with the electrodeposited chromium, the service life of the
piston ring is greatly prolonged.