Plasma-Spray Coating: Principles and Applications - Hardcover

Heimann, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3527294309 ISBN 13: 9783527294305

Publisher: Wiley-VCH, 1996

Synopsis

Over the past two decades, thermal spraying of metallic, ceramic and composite coatings has emerged as a powerful tool for surface engineering, with many new applications and markets continually being developed. This book will help materials scientists and engineers to choose the most appropriate combination of materials, equipment, and operation parameters for the design of high-performance coatings with new functional properties and improved service life.

Includes:

* a thorough treatment of the fundamental physical processes governing plasma spray technology;

* a critical assessment of advantages and disadvantages of the method compared with other suface coating techniques;

* a discussion of basic equipment requirements and limitations;

* case studies and typical applications to solve industrial problems.

Plasma-Spray Coating offers a stimulating combination of basic concepts and practical applications. Materials scientists and engineers, as well as graduate students will find this book of enormous value.

About this title

From the Publisher

Surface engineering by thermal spray technologies has attracted increasing attention over the last decades. This book provides the physical background needed to understand the technique and critically assesses its advantages and disadvantages for present and emerging applications.

From the Back Cover

This second edition has 20% more scope, with four completely new chapters and eight existing ones completely revised to include more modeling, more industrial examples, new coating types, and new medical applications.
Combining theory and practice from design to application, the monograph continues to provide a state-of-the-art treatise on plasma spray technology, beginning with the principles and techniques. Successive chapters treat the three important stages of energy transfer from the plasma to the surface, with modeling, depositing, testing and applying ceramic and metallic coatings covered in the shape of industrial problem solution examples. Concluding with quality control and a new section on biomedical issues and opportunities, the book offers pertinent knowledge for materials scientists, engineers, biologists and medical researchers alike.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3527294309
• ISBN 13: 9783527294305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 341