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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Surface treatment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 636-2021/01
Abbreviation PU
Course title Surface treatment
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Material Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Stanislav Lasek, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The importance of surface for utility and aesthetic properties, and design. Structure of metal surfaces; geometric, optical, chemical, mechanical and other surface properties
2. Surface treatment and coating as protection against corrosion, wear or high temperatures. Internal stress.
3. Strengthening of metal surfaces by plastic deformation, phase transforma-tion, change of chemical composition (diffusion coating, ion implantation, thermo-chemical treatment, nitridation, cementation).
4. Mechanical and chemical methods for the surface preparation of materials.
5. Mechanical coating: cladding by rolling, blasting or welding. Properties of clad materials.
6. Coatings of metal melts (galvanizing, aluminum coatings).
7. Hot sprays. Preparation technology, properties of hot coatings.
8. Vacuum coating technologies: steam, sputtering, PVD, CVD.
9. Surface treatment by laser: transformation curing, surface alloying, pulse processing.
10. Galvanic coatings. Autocatalytic coating.
11. Non-metallic inorganic coatings. Conversion Layers, Phosphating, Chromating
Varnishes and glazes. Ceramic coatings. Reactive coatings.
13. Organic coatings - composition of paints. Protective properties of organic coatings.
14. Degradation of coatings: mechanical loading, internal stress, erosive and cavitation wear, contact fatigue, thermal fatigue. Corrosion damage.
15. Methods of study of modified surfaces and coatings - chemical composition, structure, roughness, adhesion, tribological properties, thickness of coatings, porozity, microhardness.
16. Economic and ecological aspects of surface treatment.

Literature

DEARNLEY, P. Introduction to Surface Engineering. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781139031509 
MARTIN, P. Introduction to Surface Engineering and Functionally Engineered Materials. New York: John Wiley&Sons, 2011. ISBN 978-0-470-63927-6  (online ISBN 0470639276 ).

Advised literature

BURAKOWSKI, T. and T. WIERZCHOŇ Surface engineering of metals: principles, equipment, technologies. Florida: CRC Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8493-8225-4.