Advanced Cold Spraying Technology
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2023) | Viewed by 27016
Special Issue Editors
Interests: cold spray; thermal spray; additive manufacturing; metal coatings; metal matrix composite coatings; anti-corrosion coatings; tribological properties
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Interests: cold spray; metal-matrix composites; joining processes; corrosion properties; powder processing
Interests: metal additive manufacturing; thermal spray technology; metallic and composite coatings; micro- and nanostructure, and mechanical analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit your original contributions to this Special Issue “Advanced Cold Spraying Technology”. Cold spray is an advanced solid-state, powder-based coatings and additive manufacturing (AM) technology. Cold spray utilizes a high-pressure gas stream to accelerate micron-sized particles through a de Laval nozzle for supersonic speed and impact on substrates and to generate dense, high-performance deposits. Cold spray has many unique attributes (e.g., high deposition rate, high adhesion strength, solid-state bonding at low temperatures) in contrary to popular fusion-based AM techniques, thus opening up new opportunities in various niche industrial markets. After over thirty years of rapid development, cold spray technology has been successfully applied in surface repair, surface enhancement, functional coating, and additive manufacturing in many fields including the aerospace, weapon, energy and power, electronic power, medical equipment industries. The introduction of hybrid cold spray and the combination of cold spray with post-processing techniques have resolved its many inherent drawbacks (e.g., lack of ductility, insufficient cohesion) and further promoted the deployment of cold spray. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in cold spray helps to better realize toolpath and process optimization as well as process control for industrial production campaign. Finally, the supersonic projectile behaviors of micron-sized particles in cold spray allows researchers to investigate numerous fundamental materials phenomena under extreme conditions, e.g., “size effects” in mechanics, dynamic recrystallization, and phase transformation.
For this Special Issue, we welcome original research papers and review articles representing the state-of-the-art knowledge of advanced cold spray technology covering both academic and industrial aspects. Particular topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Cold spray additive manufacturing
- Cold spray repair and restoration
- Cold spray fundamentals
- Cold spray powders
- Cold spray of novel and functional materials
- Hybrid cold spray and post-processing techniques
- Artificial intelligence in cold spray
Dr. Wen Sun
Dr. Xin Chu
Dr. Adrian Wei Yee Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cold spray technology
- additive manufacturing
- powder processing
- functional coatings
- fundamental aspects
- artificial intelligence
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