Advanced Techniques for Surface Engineering

✍ Scribed by E. D. Hondros (auth.), Wolfram Gissler, Hermann A. Jehn (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 402
• Series: Eurocourses: Mechanical and Materials Science 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Today's shortages of resources make the search for wear and corrosion resistant materials one of the most important tasks of the next century. Since the surface of a material is the location where any interaction occurs, it is that there the hardest requirements on the material are imposed: to be wear resistant for tools and bearings; to be corrosion resistant for turbine blades and tubes in the petrochemical industry; to be antireflecting for solar cells; to be decorative for architectural panels and to combine several of these properties in other applications. Surface engineering is the general term that incorporates all the techniques by which a surface modification can be accomplished. These techniques include both coating and modification of the surface by ion implantation and laser beam melting. In recent years a continuously growing number of these techniques were developed to the extent that it became more and more difficult to maintain an overlook and to understand which of these highly differentiated techniques might be applied to resolve a given surface engineering problem. A similar development is also occuring for surface characterization techniques. This volume contains contributions from renowned scientists and engineers to the Eurocourse the aim of which was to inform about the various techniques and to give a comprehensive survey of the latest development on this subject.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
The Emergence of Interfacial Engineering....Pages 1-4
Nucleation and Growth of Thin Films....Pages 5-29
Interfaces and Adhesion....Pages 31-68
Nitriding, Boriding and Carburizing of Steels....Pages 69-82
Ion Implantation for Surface Engineering....Pages 83-104
Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition....Pages 105-133
Physical Vapor Deposition Techniques I: Evaporation and Sputtering....Pages 135-179
Physical Vapor Deposition Techniques II: Ion Plating, Arc Deposition and Ion Beam Deposition....Pages 181-197
PLASMA SPRAYING — A Versatile Coating Technique....Pages 199-234
Laser Surface Treatments: Microstructural Aspects....Pages 235-252
Hybrid Processes....Pages 253-273
Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Thin Solid Films I: Hardness, Elasticity and Stress....Pages 275-294
Measurement of Mechanical Properties of Thin Solid Films II: Friction and Wear....Pages 295-312
Microstructural Characterization of Films and Surface Layers....Pages 313-333
Surface Engineering for High Temperature Corrosion Resistance....Pages 335-358
Decorative Coatings....Pages 359-370
Diamond and Diamond-Like Carbon Films....Pages 371-397
Back Matter....Pages 399-402

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials