Synopses & Reviews
The dozen contributors to this volume, all of them well-known, leading experts, provide a ""must-have"" resource for fabrication, characterization, and applications in the field of hard coatings and wear-resistant surfaces. Handbook of Hard Coatings offers a complete explanation of commercially oriented deposition technology, from traditional vacuum-based thin-film techniques such as evaporation, sputter deposition, and chemical vapor deposition, to various thermal spraying methods. Readers also get a detailed technical introduction to the science of characterizing and measuring hard coatingsùshowing the physical properties of these films and composites as well as the underlying structure of the material. Two chapters explore techniques used to evaluate hardness, adhesion, friction, wear and stress, as well as key tribological properties.
At the heart of Handbook of Hard Coatings, an extensive practical applications section describes a wide range of conventional nitride or metal oxide coatings for both cutting tools and for non-cutting uses. In addition, a chapter on cubic boron nitride and diamond-like films provides a look at the rapidly evolving technology of materials and processes that are considered non-conventional.
About the Author
The late Rointan (Ron) F. Bunshah (M.S., D.Sc., Carnegie Institute of Technology) was a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and a distinguished senior faculty member at the University of California at Los Angeles. An internationally recognized authority on vacuum metallurgy and thin films, he was author of nearly three-hundred publications and a prolific speaker and researcher. Professor Bunshah was series editor of the MATERIALS SCIENCE AND PROCESS TECHNOLOGY SERIES as well as editor of this volume.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Vapor Depostion Technologies
Classification of Vapor Deposition Process | Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Processes | PVD Techniques for Deposition of Metals, Alloys, and Compounds| Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) | Materials Deposited by PVD and CVD Techniques
3. Thermal Spraying and Detonation Gun Processes
Hard Coating with Thermal Spraying Processes | Processes | Coating Materials/Consumables/Feedstock Materials
4. Structure/Property Relationships for Hard Coatings
Hard Materials | Microstructure and Morphology of Hard Coatings | Influence of Microstructure on Coating Properties | Adhesion and Coating/Substrate Interface Studies
5. Characterization of Hard Coatings
Evaluation of the Hardness of Thin Films | Measurement of Coating Adhesion | X-Ray Characterization of Thin Films
6. Macro- and Micromechanical and Tribological Properties
Measurement of Mechanical Properties | Measurement of Friction and Wear | Mechanical and Tribological Properties of Diamond and Amorphous Carbon Coatings | Closure
7. Applications to Cutting Tools
8. Wear and Corrosion Resistant Hard Coatings for Non-Cutting Tool Applications
Wear and Corrosion Phenomena | Selection of Coating Materials and Coating Processes | Applications of Hard Coatings for Wear and Corrosion | Diamond Coatings
9. Cubic Boron Nitride and Diamond-Related Thin Films
Cubic Boron Nitride Films | Diamond-Related Materials
10. Summary, Developments and Outlook
Current Industrial PVD Processes | CVD and PACVD Processes | Tribological Coatings and Their Applications | Alumina Coatings by CVD, PACVD and PVD Processes and First Machining Studies | Environmental Concerns in Machining and Forming | Decorative Hard Coatings | Superhard Coatings for Cutting tools | Polycrystalline Superlattice Coatings | Novel Superhard Coatings