Coatings and Surface Treatments, 5 op

Core content

• Introduction to surface engineering of materials.
• Coating and surface treatment processes, such as thermal surface hardening, thermochemical surface treatments, diffusion treatments, conversion coatings, thin film technologies, electrochemical and electroless deposition, processes for organic coatings, thermal spray technology, laser surface treatments and weld surfacing.
  
• Processing, structure, properties and performance relationships of coatings and surface treatments.
• Coating evaluation and testing
• Industrial applications of coatings and surface treatments.

Complementary knowledge

• Application requirements for surfaces.
• Equipment technology for coating and surface engineering processes.
• Structure and properties of material including metals, metallic alloys, cermets, ceramics, polymers and their composites. Properties of substrate materials and their suitability to different surface engineering processes.
  
• Standards and test procedures for evalaution of properties and quality of coatings and surface treatments.
• Conditions of various technical equipment and industrial processes.

Specialist knowledge

• Coating and surface treatment selection expertise.
• Types and properties of precursors and feedstock materials for coating and surface treatment processes.
• Knowledge of selected engineering properties of advanced coatings and surface treatments and factors having effects on these.
• Specifications used for industrial applications.
• Engineering properties of coatings and surface treatments, with special focus in wear, friction, corrosion, oxidation, electrical, magnetic and other functional properties.