Hard coatings are extensively required in industry for protecting mechanical/structural parts that withstand extremely high temperature,stress,chemical corrosion,and other hostile environments.Electrical discharge coa...Hard coatings are extensively required in industry for protecting mechanical/structural parts that withstand extremely high temperature,stress,chemical corrosion,and other hostile environments.Electrical discharge coating(EDC)is an emerging surface modification technology to produce such hard coatings by using electrical discharges to coat a layer of material on workpiece surface to modify and enhance the surface characteristics or create new surface functions.This paper presents a comprehensive overview of EDC technologies for various materials,and summarises the types and key parameters of EDC processes as well as the characteristics of resulting coatings.It provides a systematic summary of the fundamentals and key features of the EDC processes,as well as its applications and future trends.展开更多
基金Pay Jun Liew and Ching Yee Yap acknowledge the supportsfrom Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) for thetechnical and financial supports through the grant PJP/2018/FKP(6A)/S01587.
文摘Hard coatings are extensively required in industry for protecting mechanical/structural parts that withstand extremely high temperature,stress,chemical corrosion,and other hostile environments.Electrical discharge coating(EDC)is an emerging surface modification technology to produce such hard coatings by using electrical discharges to coat a layer of material on workpiece surface to modify and enhance the surface characteristics or create new surface functions.This paper presents a comprehensive overview of EDC technologies for various materials,and summarises the types and key parameters of EDC processes as well as the characteristics of resulting coatings.It provides a systematic summary of the fundamentals and key features of the EDC processes,as well as its applications and future trends.
