Plasma Spray Coating - Principles And Applications 2E

This second edition has 20% more scope, with four completely new chapters and eight existing ones completely revised to include more modeling, more industrial examples, new coating types, and new medical applications.
Combining theory and practice from design to application, the monograph continues to provide a state-of-the-art treatise on plasma spray technology, beginning with the principles and techniques. Successive chapters treat the three important stages of energy transfer from the plasma to the surface, with modeling, depositing, testing and applying ceramic and metallic coatings covered in the shape of industrial problem solution examples. Concluding with quality control and a new section on biomedical issues and opportunities, the book offers pertinent knowledge for materials scientists, engineers, biologists and medical researchers alike.

Robert Heimann is professor emeritus of technical mineralogy and materials science. He obtained his academic degrees from Freie Universitat (FU) Berlin, and subsequently served as a faculty member at FU Berlin and Universitat Karlsruhe. From 1979 on he worked in Canada as a research associate (McMaster University), senior researcher (3M Canada Inc.), staff geochemist (Atomic Energy of Canada Limited), and research manager (Alberta Research Counci8l). From 1993 to 2004 he was a full professor at TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Professor Heimann has authored over 260 scientific publications, several books and book chapters, and in 2001 was awarded the Georg-Agricola-Medal of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG) for his outstanding life time achievements in applied mineralogy. He is now president of a consulting company and also on the editorial board of Elsevier's Surface and Coating Technology journal.

"Not only does it provide the reader with a solid foundation of the underlying fundamentals of plasma spray technology to date for use in making better application design choices, it provides a wealth of practical information as well." (IEEE Electrical Insultaion Magazine, April 2010)

Preface.
Preface to the First Edition.
Synopsis.
1. Introduction.
1.1. Coatings in the Industrial Environment.
1.2. Survey of Surface Coatings Techniques.
1.3. Brief History of Thermal Spraying.
1.4. Synergistic Nature of Coatings.
1.5. Applications of Thermally Sprayed Coatings.
2. Principles of Thermal Spraying.
2.1. Characterization of Flame vs. Plasma Spraying.
2.2. Concept of Energy Transfer Processes.
2.3. Unique Features of the Plasma Spray Process.
3. The First Energy Transfer Process: Electron-Gas Interactions.
3.1. The Plasma State.
3.2. Plasma Generation.
3.3. Design of Plasmatrons.
3.4. Plasma Diagnostics: Temperature, Enthalpy and Velocity Measurements.
4. The Second Energy Transfer Process; Plasma-Particle Interactions.
4.1. Injection of Powders.
4.2. Characteristics of Feed Materials.
4.3. Momentum Transfer.
4.4. Heat Transfer.
4.5. Particle Diagnostics: Velocity, Temperature and Number Densities.
5. The Third Energy Transfer Process: Particle-Substrate Interactions.
5.1. Basic Considerations.
5.2. Estimation of Particle Number Density.
5.3. Momentum transfer From Particles to Substrate.
5.4. Heat Transfer from Particles to Substrate.
5.5. Crystallinity of Coatings.
5.6. Fractal Properties of Surfaces.
5.7. Residual Stresses.
6. Modeling an Numerical Simulation.
6.1. Principal Aspects of Modeling.
6.2. Modeling of Plasma Properties.
6.3. Modeling of the Plasma-Particle Interaction.
6.4. Modeling of Particle-Substrate Interaction.
7. Solutions to Industrial Problems I: Structural Coatings.
7.1. Carbide Coatings.
7.2. Nitride Coatings.
7.3. Oxide Coatings.
7.4. Metallic Coatings.
7.5. Diamond Coatings.
8. Solutions to Industrial Problems II: Functional Coatings.
8.1. Thermal (TBC) and Chemical (CBC) Barrier Coatings.
8.2. Superconducting and Electrocatalytic Coatings.
8.3. Photocatalytic Coatings.
8.4. Coatings with High Friction Coefficient.
9. Solutions to Industrial Problems III: Bioceramic Coatings.
9.1. Classification of Biomaterials and Mechanism of Bone Bonding.
9.2. Properties of Bioceramic Coatings.
9.3. Plasma Spraying of Osseoconductive Hydroxyapatite.
9.4. Bioinert Bond Coats.
9.5. Other Thermal Coating Techniques.
9.6. Outlook.
10. Quality Control and Coating Diagnostic Procedures.
10.1. Quality Implementation.
10.2. Characterization and Test Procedures.
11. Design of Novel Coatings.
11.1. Property-based Approaches.
11.2. Stochastic Approaches.
11.3. Future Developments.
Appendix A. Dimensionless Groups.
Appendix B. Calculation of Temperature Profiles of Coatings.
Appendix C. Calculation of Factor Effects for a Fractional Factorial Design 28-4 .
References.
Index.