Protective, Tribological, and Decorative Coatings
The Protective, Tribological and Decorative Coatings Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) encourages speakers to submit abstracts to highlight their work about coatings used to enhance wear resistance or modify friction characteristics in tribological components, such as those in machining and forming processes or in automotive and aeronautical applications.
The second topic covered in this session is corrosion resistance. We welcome contributions highlighting the developments in this field that play an important role in enhancing lifetime of metallic components. Examples are fuel cells where the performance and lifetime are enhanced by reducing corrosion rate.
The third topic is coatings used in decorative sector, where mostly PVD coatings are used for enhanced surface finish. These PVD coatings enhance aesthetics appeal along with wear and corrosion resistance.
The use of such coatings is typically driven by performance requirements, reduction of life-cycle cost, environmental consideration, and durable cosmetic and aesthetic designs. These end-user motivations lead to dedicated coating and technology developments, vacuum coating equipment concepts, new testing procedures and methods, and production quality standards. Therefore, successful coating solutions in the marketplace require strong co-operation between market specialists, universities, suppliers, manufacturers, and end-users.
The TAC encourages speakers to present on new emerging technologies. Developing and scaling up from laboratory to high volume production at high production yields is also of high interest to the participants in this session.
Today’s global landscape is changing rapidly and will drive many new application developments that will include new coatings for new applications. Environmental considerations for reducing CO2 emissions in electroplating and fast-moving communication technologies are well-known examples of such changes. Electrification of transportation and diversifying beyond the internal combustion engine are regular developments.
Topics of interest for this session include, but are not limited to:
- Applications:
- Hydrogen economy related components,
- Coatings for high-performance engines, including hydrogen and e-fuels combustion,
- PVD and CVD coatings for cutting, forming and molding tools,
- Coatings for the reduction of friction and exhaust gas emissions,
- Low- and high-temperature coatings for aerospace applications,
- Decorative components and large area prefabricated sheets,
- Corrosion protective coatings (e.g. Zn:Al) on large-area surfaces, and
- Electroplating replacements by vacuum deposited coatings.
- Development:
- Super-lubricity coatings,
- Corrosion protection,
- New colors,
- Hydrogen embrittlement barriers,
- Testing and evaluation of coating performance,
- Scale-up of vacuum coating processes for industrial demands,
- Failure analysis of coatings,
- Assessment, control and management of residual mechanical stress,
- Duplex coatings and thin-on-thick systems, and
- Modelling approaches to performance analysis and prediction.
- Production Related:
- Reliability and life of coated parts and systems,
- Upscaling from laboratory to production,
- Scrap rates from percentages to ppm levels, and
- Integration of Industry 4.0 in vacuum coating plants.
Protective, Tribological, and Decorative Coatings TAC Co-Chairs: Martin Engels, IHI Ionbond, martin.engels@ionbond.com; Alexander Fehr, Eifeler-Vacotec, alexander.fehr@eifeler-vacotec.com; Anas Ghailane, Avaluxe Coating Technologies, aghailane@avaluxe-technologies.de; Juan Manuel Gonzalez Carmona, Centro de Ingenieria y Desrrollo Insutrial CIDESI, juan.gonzalez@cidesi.edu.mx; Jolanta Klemberg-Sapieha, Polytechnique Montréal, jsapieha@polymtl.ca; Sankalp Kota, Timken, sankalp.kota@timken.com; Christoph Schiffers, CemeCon AG, christoph.schiffers@cemecon.de; Christian Stein, Fraunhofer IST, christian.stein@ist.fraunhofer.de