Overview
- Editors:
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Albano Cavaleiro
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Depto. Eng. Mecanica, University de Coimbra, Columbra, Portugal
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Jeff Th. M. Hosson
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Department of Applied Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
- First book on nanostructured functional coatings with focus on mechanical applications
- Explains relationships between structure/microstructure and mechanical properties from fundamental concepts, through types of coatings, to characterization techniques
- Novel approach to fundamental principles behind nanostructured materials, the application of these principles to coated materials and technological results
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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- Jeff T. M. De Hosson, Albano Cavaleiro
Pages 1-26
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- Benedikt Moser, Ruth Schwaiger, Ming Dao
Pages 27-77
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- Helena Van Swygenhoven, Abdellatif Hasnaoui, Peter M. Derlet
Pages 109-142
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- Jeff Th. M. De Hosson, Nuno J. M. Carvalho, Yutao Pei, Damiano Galvan
Pages 143-215
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- Albano Cavaleiro, Bruno Trindade, Maria Teresa Vieira
Pages 261-314
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- Bruno Trindade, Albano Cavaleiro, Maria Teresa Vieira
Pages 315-346
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- Stan Veprek, Maritza G. J. Veprek-Heijman
Pages 347-406
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- Lars Hultman, Christian Mitterer
Pages 464-510
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- Adrian Leyland, Allan Matthews
Pages 511-538
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- P. Eh. Hovsepian, W. -D. Münz
Pages 555-644
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Back Matter
Pages 645-651
About this book
Controlling the performance of structures and components of all sizes and shapes through the use of engineered coatings has long been a key strategy in materials processing and technological design. The ever-increasing sophistication of en- neered coatings and the rapid trend toward producing increasingly smaller devices with greater demands on their fabrication, properties and performance have led to signi?cant progress in the science and technology of coatings, particularly in the last decade or two. Nanostructured coatings constitute a major area of sci- ti?c exploration and technological pursuit in this development. Withcharacteristic structural length scales on the order of a few nanometers to tens of nanometers, nanostructured coatings provide potential opportunities to enhance dramatically performance by offering, in many situations, extraordinary strength and hardness, unprecedented resistance to damage from tribological contact, and improvements in a number of functional properties. At the same time, there are critical issues and challenges in optimizing these properties with ?aw tolerance, interfacial adhesion and other nonmechanical considerations, depending on the coating systems and applications. Nanostructured coatings demand study in a highly interdisciplinary research arena which encompasses: surface and interface science study of defects modern characterization methodologies cutting-edge experimental developments to deposit,synthesize, conso- date, observe as well as chemically and mechanically probe materials at the atomic and molecular length scales state-of-the-art computational simulation techniques for developing - sightsintomaterialbehaviourattheatomicscalewhichcannotbeobtained in some cases from experiments alone The interdisclipinarynature of the subject has made it a rich playing ?eld for scienti?c innovation and technological progress.
Editors and Affiliations
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Depto. Eng. Mecanica, University de Coimbra, Columbra, Portugal
Albano Cavaleiro
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Department of Applied Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Jeff Th. M. Hosson
