| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L92341/01 |
| Title: |
TOUGHENED HARD COATINGS FOR AQUEOUS CORROSIVE-WEAR APPLICATIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Dearnley, Dr P |
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| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Leeds |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
10 March 1998 |
Ends: |
09 March 2001 |
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50,073
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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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http://www.leeds.ac.uk |