Wear and Corrosion Behavior of Coatings for Industrial Applications

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation of wear in materials for industrial and engineering applications has been a topic that involves different areas of engineering and scientific understanding, allowing us to recognize this phenomenon that affects production systems in general, causing great economic losses due to the stoppage of the affected production systems, repair of machinery and tools used. A similar case is the corrosion phenomena that directly affect these productive systems due to the deterioration of the machinery and equipment, so the application of control and evaluation methods of corrosion and wear in protective coatings on metal and non-metallic surfaces is of great importance.

Therefore, the scope of this Special Issue will cover the following concepts:

• Applications of basic and applied knowledge related to the nature of wear and corrosion in coating materials. Broadly, topics of interest range from the development of a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of wear and corrosion to innovative solutions applied in resolve engineering problems.

Submissions are invited on subjects such as the following:

• The development of wear-resistant coatings or surface modification. Research should include information on resistant coatings marking the difference between the materials currently employed, focused on engineering applications, or presenting a basic proposal of the work that can be recognized over the current validated coatings.
• Knowledge of the structure and composition of the coating, focusing on the validation of the material selection according to the respective environment in which the coating will be used and the properties and processing of materials and their wear behavior. Such submissions may include evidence of basic science as a fundamental aspect of the interpretation of the mechanisms that define the behavior of the functionality of the coating.
• The modelling of wear mechanisms in coatings. This subject can include the modelling of the basic mechanisms as well as the modelling of tribo-systems, too. Approaches can consider the following aspects: contact mechanics, erosion effects, friction and heating considerations, and the effect of lubrication between contact parts, with the corresponding validation of the proposed model.

This Special Issue may consider original papers in the fields of modified surface degradation and coatings as a basic or applied science, high-temperature oxidation, biochemical corrosion and methods of corrosion protection on coatings.

Topics of interest include conventional coating technique deposition, wear and corrosion behaviour in metals and alloys. They also include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Polymeric coatings, nanomaterial deposition and coatings as biomaterials.

Dr. Isai Rosales Cadena
Dr. Rene Guardian-Tapia
Guest Editors

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• wear
• corrosion
• tribology
• coatings
• mechanical properties
• modelling