Surface Modification and Coatings: Technology, Materials, and Applications

This book offers an overview of surface engineering, encompassing a diverse array of techniques (in surface modifications and surface coatings), applications, and emerging trends. Further, it provides insights into various materials, applications, process modeling, and optimization strategies. Key themes covered in the book include surface modification and coating techniques, applications, recent advances in materials employed, emerging trends, process modeling and optimization in surface engineering, sustainability, and Industry 4.0 applications.

• Provides fundamental understanding of different surface engineering techniques and modernization to attain novel application requirements
• Includes recent advances and case studies from academia and industries on the application of surface engineering for repair and remanufacturing
• Features modeling, optimization, materials, characterization, process monitoring, and sustainability in surface engineering
• Exemplifies surface engineering of additive manufactured components, implants, aerospace parts, cutting tools, and power transmission
• Discusses high-power applications in modern surface engineering

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in surface engineering, materials processing, and advanced manufacturing.

Jinoop Arackal Narayanan is currently serving as Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK. Prior to this role, he held positions as a research fellow in additive manufacturing at the Welding and Additive Manufacturing Centre, Cranfield University, UK, and as an industrial postdoctoral researcher at the Multiscale Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada. He also worked as a DAE Research Fellow at the Laser Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, India. His research interests include additive manufacturing, laser surface engineering, material characterization, laser material processing, and sustainable manufacturing. He has more than 80 publications including journal papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and international and national conference papers/presentations.

Kanmani Subbu Subbian is working as Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Palakkad, India. After completing his Doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, he worked as Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Technology Warangal, India, for over four years. His area of expertise includes micromanufacturing, laser surface processing, composite fabrication and machining, and additive manufacturing. He has published more than 95 international journal publications and international conferences. He has executed projects from SERB-DST and CSR. He is a member of IEI, Laser Association, and ISME. He has conducted two GIAN workshops, two STTPs, one ATAL program, and one faculty development program.