Although alloy tin plating has been known and used for many years, this paper will describe the use of a new non-cyanide tin/zinc alloy as a possible replacement coating for cadmium and the use of a tin/nickel alloy as a possible substitute for barrel decorative chromium plating. A review on the corrosion properties of tin, zinc and cadmium compared to tin/zinc alloys and review of the properti...

in this study, taguchi experimental design has been used for the optimization of thickness of chromium layers. for this purpose brass materials have been electroplated under various conditions of the process. an orthogonal array (oa) was employed to analyze the effect of plating parameters on the characteristic of the thickness. variables which were considered for working were as following; amo...

he wide use of nickel coatings is T due to their valuable properties.l-2 Nickel coatings are used primarily for decorative and industrial purposes. The uses of nickel in the decorative field are. numerous including automobile parts, fumiture, general hardware and fasteners, bicycles, as undercoats in low-cost jewelry, sporting equipment, toys, cutlery, lamps and plumbing fixtures. Most of the d...

Japanese ceramic and lacquer objects have been collected and used as interior decorations in Europe since the early seventeenth century, and in the nineteenth century the fashion for Japonisme saw a boom of importing various Japanese decorative arts. Museums and private collections all over the world have rich holdings of Japanese decorative arts, however, the systematic research of Japanese de...

Castles, palaces, temples and cathedrals in the real world are densely decorated with ornamentation. Computer games, in contrast, usually have much less and appear Spartan in comparison. Game worlds, whether hand-made or procedural, require greater decorative ornamentation to increase their realism and beauty. Currently artists create this ornament by hand; this doesn’t scale. In order to have ...