Two large groups of materials, namely metals and ceramics, are used in mass quantities today’s industry because their outstanding properties. To achieve higher product performance dissimilar materials need to be combined assemblies, but joining is challenging. Using friction surfacing technology Al[Formula: see text]O[Formula: text] ceramic substrates were coated with an aluminium alloy (AlMg4....

Friction surfacing is an advanced manufacturing process, which has been successfully developed and commercialised over the past decade. The process is used for corrosion and wear resistant coatings and for reclamation of worn engineering components. At present the selection of process parameters for new coating materials or substrate geometries is by experiment requiring lengthy development wor...