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Surface Engineering

Surface Engineering is a synergistic combination of bulk and surface materials to yield a system with specific properties which can be produced by neither the bulk material nor the surface material on its own. In the modern industrial world, this approach is being increasingly adopted to achieve increased reliability and enhanced performance of degradation-prone industrial components. It encompasses coating and surface treatment processes, capable of altering surface properties to provide improved resistance against deterioration due to mechanisms such as corrosion, oxidation, wear or failure under an excessive heat load. The wide spectrum of surface technologies accessible to design engineers today include electro-deposition, diffusion coatings, thermal spraying, physical and chemical vapour deposition, sol-gel coatings, plasma and laser assisted surface modification etc. Advances in the field of coatings technology in recent years have made it possible to realise the immense potential of surface engineering in diverse industry segments. Although surface engineering is of growing industrial relevance globally, the industry in the developing countries is yet to exploit the state-of-the-art surface modification technologies to their full potential and ongoing R&D efforts in this area are also far short of what this important field demands.

The NAM S&T Centre has recently published a book which is a follow up of an 8-day international training course cum business opportunities workshop jointly organised by the NAM S&T Centre and the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI) at Hyderabad, India during 19-26 July 2005. It comprises papers presented during this event and includes articles authored by some eminent scientists actively working in this field.

The publication establishes a distinct relation of surface engineering advancement with industrial development and resultant economic gains and prosperity of the masses, and the information present herein is expected to catalyse the awareness on this subject in the minds of policy makers, technology managers and industries in the developing countries.

LIST OF CONTENTS

  • Foreword (G. Sundararajan, Director, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad, India)

  • Preface (D. Srinivasa Rao and Shrikant V. Joshi, ARCI, Hyderabad, India)

  • Introduction (Arun P. Kulshreshtha, Director, NAM S&T Centre)

 
  1.

Diffusion Coatings (D. K. Das)

  
  2.

Thermally Sprayed Coatings (Srikant V. Joshi)

  
  3.

Detonation Spray Coating Technology: Capabilities and Applications. (D. Srinivasa Rao)

  
  4.

Cold Gas Dynamic Spraying (G. Sivakumar and S. V. Joshi)

  
  5.

Sol Gel Coating: Basic Science, Processing and Applications (U. S. Hareesh)

  
  6.

Laser Assisted Surface Modification of Engineering Metals and Alloys (Jyotsna Dutta Majumdar and Indranil Manna)

  
  7.

Surface Engineering with Low Pressure Plasma (S. Mukherji)

  
  8.

Thin Film Processing: An Overview (A. Subrahmanyam)

 
  9.

Micro Arc Oxidation Vs Hard Anodizing: Process Features & Coating Properties (L. Rama Krishna)

 
  10.

Nanostructured Multilayer Superlattice Coatings and Nanocomposite Coatings (Harish C. Barshilia)

  
  11.

Electro-Spark Coating (K. R. C. Soma Raju)

  
  12.

High Temperature Coating (A. S. Khanna)

  
  13.

Synthesis, Triboligical Properties and Application of Carbon Based Coatings (V. D. Vankar and S. K. Arora)

  
  14.

Diode Laser Treatment and HVOF Coating to combat Cavitation and Silt Erosion in Power Industry (B. K. Pant, Vivek Arya, S. P. Gupta and B. S. Mann)

  
  15.

An Introduction to Characterization of Coatings (Ravi C. Gundakaram)

  
  16.

Evaluation of Tribological Coatings (B. Venkataraman)

  
 

COUNTRY REPORTS

  
  17.

Development in Surface Engineering in Egypt (Randa Abdel Karim, Egypt)

 
  18.
 

Status of Surface Treatment Industry andEvaluation of Characteristic Properties of Surface Coating Techniques (S. S. K. Muthurathne and Sarath Jayatileke, Sri Lanka)

  
  19.
 

Preparation of Coating Films of Pb(Mg1/3, Nb2/3)O3 - PbTiO3-PbZrO3 by Sol-Gel Method and Their Dielectric Properties Measurement (Silvester Tursiloadi, Indonesia)

 
  20.

Extending the Service Life of Oil Pumps by Detonation Coating and Status of Surface Engineering (Khalil Azimeh, Syria)

 
  21.

Corrosion Protection and Finishing of Automobiles and Status of Surface Engineering (Shahid Tufail Sheikh, Pakistan)

 
  22.

An Overview of the Beneficiation, Environmental Issues and R&D of Industrial Minerals in Indonesia (Husaini, Indonesia)