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EPSRC Reference: GR/L92341/01
Title: TOUGHENED HARD COATINGS FOR AQUEOUS CORROSIVE-WEAR APPLICATIONS
Principal Investigator: Dearnley, Dr P
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Project Partners:
Multi-Arc (UK) Ltd Teer Coatings Ltd
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Organisation: University of Leeds
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 10 March 1998 Ends: 09 March 2001 Value (£): 50,073
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Materials Processing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Manufacturing
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The proposed research seeks to address the industrial need to improve the corrosion-wear performance of austenitic stainless steels. Hard coating materials used for this purpose are inadequate; this is attributed to a poor fracture toughness that contributes to both corrosion pitting and microfracture driven wear processes. It is planned to research the feasibility of producing toughened composite coatings based on several alumina-silicon carbide and chromium boride-metal combinations using unbalanced magnetron sputter deposition. These will be applied to polished austenitic 316L surfaces and subject to a variety of characterisation procedures including corrosive-wear tests in saline abrasive media.
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