Solid Surfaces, Defects and Detection

Dear Colleagues,

As an important application of coatings, solid surface has been widely used in various industrial coating fields. Due to problems of material properties and process flow, the solid surface will inevitably produce many defects, such as cracks and shrinkage holes. These defects seriously affect the quality of products; therefore, timely detection is needed.

Accordingly, we have launched this new Special Issue of Coatings, which will collect original research articles and review papers focusing on the fundamentals and application of applied surface science and engineering for coatings. We invite papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following topics: coatings for solid surfaces, theoretical and computational modeling of solid surfaces, vision detection for surface defects, artificial intelligence of vision detection, recognition of industrial products, hidden defect detection and classification methods, non-destructive testing and evaluation using image processing methods.

We look forward to receiving your contribution.

Prof. Dr. Kechen Song
Guest Editor

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