Advanced Surface Engineering
- Session one: Introduction to surface engineering, surface engineering against wear, corrosion, fatigue, surface engineering of bio compatible material, decorative applications of surface engineering, role of surface engineering in materials selection.
- Session two: Introduction to friction and wear, friction definition, friction mechanisms, factors affecting friction and wear, friction and wear examination, types of wear, adhesive wear, mild wear, sever wear.
- Session three: Scuffing, effective ways for protection against scuffing, abrasive wear, machining wear, low stress sliding abrasion, abrasive wear and hardness, effect of precipitation, ductility and work hardening rate, particle impact erosion, three - body abrasion.
- Session four: Gouging abrasion, fatigue wear, contact fatigue wear, percussive wear, cavitation abrasion, delamination wear, combined wear, fretting, corrosive wear, wear equations.
- Session five: Comparison of surface treatment processes, thermal hardening, diffusion or thermochemical treatments, carburizing, carbonitriding, nitrocarburizing, selective hardening, flame hardening, induction hardening, the new techniques for surface hardening
- Session six: Industrial application of plasma nitriding, what is plasma nitriding? iron-nitrogen diagram, nitride phases, microstructure of nitrided sample, gas nitriding, liquid nitriding, plasma nitriding, what is plasma? dissociation, ionization, excitation, surface reactions, process parameters
- Session seven: Plasma nitriding, benefits, layers properties, technical considerations, economical considerations, nitriding and post oxidation, microstructure and corrosion resistance of nitrided and post oxidized samples, corrosion test results, plasma nitrocarburizing, active screen plasma nitriding, plasma nitriding equipments that are manufactured in Iran, examples of treated samples in Iran.
- Session eight: Main characteristics of surface treatments, hardness, impact resistant, strength & oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures, corrosion resistance, temperature of substrates, bond strength, coating porosity, component shape, component size, rates of coating deposition or layer formation, coating thickness, effect of surface treatment on the fatigue strength of the substrate.
- Session nine: What is vacuum? what is pressure? history of vacuum, vacuum applications, pressure measurements, pressure units, vacuum terms
- Session ten: Gas laws, standard pressure, absolute pressure, gauge pressure, standard temperature, absolute temperature, gauge temperature, Avogadro law, Boyle law, Charles law, ideal gas law, Dalton law, vapor pressure
- Session eleven: Conductance, leak sources, types of leaks, outgassing, back streaming, different types of vacuum pumps, pumping speed, vacuum gages
- Session twelve: Seminars, PVD techniques
- Session thirteenth: Seminars, CVD techniques
- Session fourteenth: Seminars, PACVD techniques
- Session fifteenth: Seminars, spray techniques
- Session sixteenth: Seminars, surface layer characterization techniques