Multi-scale and Multifunctional Coatings and Interfaces for Tribological Contacts

This book covers developments in multi-scale and multifunctional coatings, including strategies in the preparation, characterization, and properties of both thin and thick multifunctional coatings along with their corresponding application. Various technologies for processing, characterization, and tribology effects of various coating surfaces and interfaces are discussed. It describes smart surfaces like piezoelectric materials, shape memory alloys, shape memory ceramics, magnetostrictive materials, electrostrictive materials, dielectric materials, and advanced ceramics.

• Explains multifunctional materials with respect to their tribology behavior at surface and interface.
• Covers analysis techniques for multifunctional surfaces and interfaces.
• Discusses emerging applications of multifunctional surfaces.
• Explores multifunctionality of thin films as well as thick coatings.

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in metallurgical engineering, materials science, and nanosciences.

Ajit Behera is working as Asst. Professor in Metallurgical & Materials Department at National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has completed his PhD from IIT-Kharagpur in 2016. He received National "IEI Young Engineer Award" in 2022, "Yuva Rattan Award" in 2020, "C.V. Raman Award" in 2019 and "young faculty award" in 2017. He has published more than 160 publications including 01 Textbook, 10 edited Book, and many Book Chapters.
Kuldeep Kumar Saxena has done his doctoral degree from IIT Roorkee. He has 12+ years of experience in academics, Research and industry. Dr. Saxena holds expertise in hot deformation behaviour of materials, microstructural characterization of materials, and micro manufacturing. He has served as Senior Research Fellow (SRF) for 2 years and 8 months on a project sponsored by Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), a research unit of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai. Dr. Saxena is an author of many book chapters published by reputed publishers such as Elsevier and many more. He has authored 152+ research papers which are published in reputed international journals indexed by SCI/ Scopus. He is currently working as an Professor in the Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, India.
Dipen Kumar Rajak has been done doctorate in material and design engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand-India. The academic achievements are manifested in his original research contributions through over 120 papers published in refereed international journal, including 18-patents, 02-designs, 12-book chapters, and 02-books. These contributions are well reckoned as shown through numerous citations to his papers more than 1950. His recent work consists of development of aluminum foams for different applications where low density and high specific energy absorption is required in automobile, aerospace and thermal management sectors, polymers, fiber etc.
Shankar Sehgal is Faculty Member in Mechanical Engineering, UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India since 2005. His area of research is materials, manufacturing, joining and finite element model updating. He is a University Gold Medalist in B. E. (Mech. Engg.) from GNDEC Ludhiana. He completed his M. Tech and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Panjab University respectively. Dr. Sehgal is completed Guest Editor of Five SCI Indexed Journals and two Scopus Indexed Journals.