Surface Engineering and Coating
- Costs of corrosion and wear and its relationship with coating
- Classification of metallic, organic, ceramic, conversion and diffusion coatings
- Overview of the various methods of applying a coating (traditional and modern methods)
- Electrochemical and electroless coatings
- Copper, nickel, chromium and silver plating baths
- Anodizing: baths used and coating properties
- Phosphating
- Chromating
- Organic paints and coatings, pigment materials
- Principles of surface engineering including concepts of surface hardness, wear, tribology and friction
- Surface hardening operations such as carbonization, nitriding, flame hardening, induction hardening, laser hardening, friction stir processes
- Shot-peening and sandblasting
- Methods of thin films formation, including physical and chemical vapor phase deposition, sputtering method and laser-based methods.
- Plasma coatings including plasma oxidation in different baths and plasma nitriding