Thermal Spray Processes: The Evolution of Equipment, Technology and Feedstock
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2018) | Viewed by 13590
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plasma spraying; laser treatment of ceramic coatings; suspension and solution precursor plasma spraying (titania, zirconia and hydroxyapatite) for emerging applications
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: thermally sprayed functional coatings (flame spraying, high velocity flame spraying, plasma spraying, cold gas spraying, warm spraying, High velocity air fuel spraying, HVOF, HVAF, APS, VPS, arc spraying ...)
Interests: research and development of ceramic; hardmetal and metal coatings by various thermal coating processes and their industrial applications; thermal spraying with suspensions from the development of appropriate hardware components to the tailored coating solutions and technology transfer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Thermal spraying is one of most versatile technologies in coatings deposition. Its attractiveness results from its high efficiency of deposition of a broad range of materials, including ceramics, metals, and alloys. In the last few years, new emerging spray technologies, mainly cold spraying and thermal spraying with liquid feedstocks, have become of increasing interest. The torches used to spray use cold or warm gases accelerated in a De Laval nozzle; hot gases or plasmas being heated by gas combustion or by an electric arc. The evolutions in torches design include the ways of feedstock injection and methods of gas heating. The use of liquid feedstock, such as suspensions and solution precursors, enabled the achievement of new coating architectures and the achievement of promising mechanical or thermophysical properties. On the other hand, development of metal-cladded ceramic powders paves the way to obtain cermet coatings with the use of the cold spray technique.
The proposed Special Issue of Metals invites the authors of papers that are active in the development of these new thermal spray processes, as well as on the design of new concepts for feedstock.
Prof. Dr. Lech Pawlowski
Prof. Dr. Andreas Killinger
Dr. Filofteia-Laura Toma
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cold gas spraying
- Suspension thermal spraying
- Solution precursor thermal spray
- Plasma spray torches evolution
- Metal cladded ceramic powder for cold spray
