Industrial Design

Industrial Design

Monday 10 March 2014

Coating Characteristics - Composition



There are many methods available which provide chemical composition and other information about coatings. However, simple chemical composition is not a sufficient indication of a coating’s properties to enable its tribological behaviour to be predicted with a satisfactory degree of confidence. This is especially true in the case of ceramic coatings.

Coatings can be composed of grains, i.e. they can be polycrystalline, either random or textured and have a preferred orientation, and they may even be epitaxial.
The appropriate analysis technique for a particular coating will thus depend on its morphological nature, as well as aspects such as its thickness, surface finish and actual composition.

In tribology, increasing attention is being focused on tribochemical reactions, and the choice of surface’s analytical technique will also be determined by its ability to detect and evaluate the reaction products and transfer layers which often control contact behaviour.


 

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