The film formation of an acrylate latex with a glass-transition temperature of 38 °C has been achieved through the use of near-infrared (NIR) radiative heating. A hard, crack-free coating was obtained without the addition of plasticizers. Sintering of acrylate particles was confirmed through measurements using atomic force microscopy. The addition of an NIR-absorbing polymer increased the rate ...

Diamond coating of suitable template materials and subsequent delamination allows for the manufacturing of free-standing diamond foil. The evolution of the microstructure can be influenced by secondary nucleation via control of process conditions in the hot-filament chemical vapour deposition process. Bending tests show extraordinarily high strength (more than 8 GPa), especially for diamond foi...

Spherical indentation of a thin, hard coating bonded to a thick substrate is investigated. The bending of the coating over the softer substrate induces concentrated tensile stresses on the lower and upper coating surfaces, from which transverse cracks may ensue. This work is primarily concerned with ring cracks originating from the top surface of the coating. In-situ indentation tests are carri...

A technique to heal a fatigue crack in austenitic stainless steel SUS316 by applying a controlled, high-density pulsed current was developed. A surface-activated pre-coating (SAPC), which eliminates the oxide layer and coats a Ni film on the crack surface, was used to improve the adhesion between crack surfaces. Cracks were observed by scanning electron microscopy before and after the applicati...

Worldwide consumption in oil and natural gas is expected to lead all other energy sources in the next 20 years. The oil & gas pipeline network will constantly expand placing greater demand on operators to ensure any integrity threats to these pipeline systems are accurately and reliably identified. What are the main integrity threats to pipelines? There are many such as third-party damage, exte...

in the present study, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) was used to obtain dense and crack-free layers of Al2O3 on carbon substrate. Microstructural study of the obtained layers by scanning electron (SEM) and optical microscopy (OM) approved that crack-free layers can be obtained by EPD technique. According to obtained results, isopropanol is a suitable media to obtian compact layers which is at...

This paper investigates the effects of thin plastically deformable layers embedded in an elastic coating upon debonding of a multilayer from its substrate. Such coatings are normally deposited at high temperature and cooled to ambient, resulting in significant stresses from thermal expansion mismatch. Other stresses can develop during subsequent thermal cycling if volumetric changes such as pha...

In the present study, electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method in different electric fields (30 – 300 V / cm) was used to apply Co3O4 spinel coating to SUS 430 as SOFC interconnect. The coated and uncoated specimens were pre-sintered in air at 800 and 900 °C for 3 h followed by cyclic oxidation at 700 and 800 °C for 500 h, respectively. X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), Scanning Electron Microsc...

In this study, different amounts of MoS2 particles and an anionic surfactant were added to the conventional chromium electroplating bath in order to electrodeposite crack-free chromium coatings and the structure, morphology, tribology and corrosion behavior of the deposited coatings were investigated using X-ray diffraction spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, pin on disk ...

Fracture modes in a model glass–polymer coating–substrate system indented with hard spheres are investigated. The large modulus mismatch between the glass and polymer results in distinctive transverse fracture modes within the brittle coating: exaggerated circumferential (C) ring cracks that initiate at the upper coating surface well outside the contact (as opposed to the near-contact Hertzian ...