Laser Surface Treatment: Processes and Applications
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Corrosion, Wear and Erosion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2024) | Viewed by 334
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanical alloying; laser cladding; powder spheroidization; corrosion resistance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Laser surface treatment is a new technology for the heat treatment of metal surfaces caused by the high-energy thermal effect of laser beams inside. This has achieved obvious results in improving the wear resistance, corrosion resistance, fatigue resistance and impact resistance of metal surfaces. The advantages of laser treatment are that it is pollution-free, has a local surface treatment and results in minimal pressure and deformation. Therefore, it has broad application prospects. Laser surface treatment is characterized by fast heating speed, high temperature, no oxidation, small deformation, ultra-fine grain and high fatigue strength. It can achieve self-cooling quenching, especially suitable for local heat treatment, such as the small size of the workpiece, the bottom of the hole and other parts that have difficulty in achieving this with ordinary heat treatment. Laser heat treatment is widely used in the automobile industry. It can be used in many key parts of automobiles. In the large locomotive manufacturing industry, the application of laser heat treatment has greatly improved the life of the locomotive. Laser processing centers of different scales have been established throughout the country, which can carry out laser heat treatment for machine parts of various industries.
The aim of this issue is to consolidate the latest findings related to the preparation and protection of material surfaces and to provide an opportunity for researchers to publish the latest results, reviews, methods and failure reports to understand or solve the problem of material surface treatment through laser-related techniques. We welcome submissions of original, high-quality papers and critical reviews.
This scope of this Special Issue will serve as a forum for papers in the following areas:
- Wear and corrosion resistance of laser-related coatings;
- New technology and application of laser surface treatment;
- Understanding the degradation mechanisms of coatings through friction, wear or other dynamic loading conditions and corrosion;
- Control of oxides during laser cladding;
- Computer modeling, simulation to predict coating properties, performance, durability and reliability in service environments;
- The microscopic mechanism of the effect of laser technology on the surface damage, defects and dislocations of materials.
Prof. Dr. Shengqi Xi
Guest Editor
Dr. Zhen Gu
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- protective corrosion or wear coatings
- damage evolution modeling of coatings
- laser cladding
- laser coating surface treatment
- innovative laser coating technology
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